Rodrigue Quotes & Sayings

The world should take notice when someone ... with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven. — Rodrigue Tremblay

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all. — George Rodrigue

Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in your car is the sound of toll change in the ashtray. The absence of telltale tobacco stains on your shirt collar tells the tale - you've licked the smoking habit. — Robert Breault

Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies. — George Rodrigue

Graciously live life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices. — Rodrigue Tremblay

You are your own best friend or worst enemy ... choose wisely! — Timothy Pina

I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring. — Sienna Miller

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu

What makes Capa a great photo journalist?" asks a reporter covering a 1998 retrospective of his work. "We see his own appetite for life, his mix of urgency with compassion . . . the artistic thrust of his photography always had more to do with its emotional pitch, which remained genuine and deeply felt." Or, in Capa's own words, a great picture "is a cut out of the whole event which will show more of the real truth of the affair to some one who was not there than the whole scene. — John Steinbeck

Don't do to others what you would not like to be done to you, if you were in their place. — Rodrigue Tremblay

My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings. — Zach Galifianakis

The reality is technology is here, technology will only improve and certain technology companies will dominate in the next five to ten years, ... The problem is determining which ones and at what value. — George Rodrigue

The world should be worried about those who go around the planet with a can of gasoline in one hand and a box of matches in the other, pretending to sell fire insurance. — Rodrigue Tremblay

I'm expressing the feelings of mankind today through the Blue Dog. The dog is always having problems of the heart, of growing up, the problems of life. The dog looks at us and asks, 'Why am I here? What am I doing? Where am I going?' Those are the same questions we ask ourselves. People look at the paintings, and the paintings speak back to them. — George Rodrigue

It All Started with a Moose — Nancy Temple Rodrigue

I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned, but that don't mean she turned out wrong. — Jeannette Walls