Skidmarks Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting. — Bridget Riley

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again. — Michael Johnson

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. — Virginia Woolf

He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them. — Katherine Paterson

In that formless place, he found himself intensely grateful for Ronan and Adam waiting outside for him, for Blue and her family, for Noah and for Malory. He was so grateful to have found all of them, finally. — Maggie Stiefvater

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away. — Brownie McGhee

I'm kind of lame. I prefer quiet evenings at home, hanging out with my family. — Selena

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform. — Richard Lamm

The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly? — Elizabeth Bibesco

I put on weight like Santa Claus. I just get this belly that kind of extends out. — Christian Bale

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine. — Tucker Carlson

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator. — Bernie Siegel

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. — Denis Diderot