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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.


Georgia O'Keeffe

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YAYOI KUSAMA In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. Yo...
YAYOI KUSAMA I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
BARRY HUMPHRIES Go away. I'm all right.
, LAST WORDS Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her painting...
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HOWARD DEAN You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why no...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Like any other actor, I want to work with good directors, and I always look for good scripts. I'...
NIVIN PAULY I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his...
CHELSEA HANDLER I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can...
S. TRUETT CATHY I love you and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do."-Loren Hale
KRISTA RITCHIE I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poe...
JIMMY CARTER After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't...
SCOTT BAKULA I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have an...
KEVIN PIETERSEN I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I ...
KRISTA RITCHIE My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Pieces of me, I'm giving to you. In the words that I say and the things that I do.
SHELLI THOMPSON I liked the way we responded. One of the things we talked about was composure. I guess you could say...
ANDY MURRAY I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.
NINA CONTI I believe that all things are possible under God.
BROOKE ELLIOTT My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew a...
JONI MITCHELL You see things and say: Why? But I dream things that never where; and I say: Why not?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I found the way by the sound of your voice. So many things to say but these are only words. Now I've...
DAVID SYLVIAN Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. ...
HOWARD DEAN I've had some shows where I really plan out what I'm going to say. Then I've had other s...
DIERKS BENTLEY I'm interested in every aspect of fashion. I think it's in my bones. When I was younger I us...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told a...
BOY GEORGE It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have don...
RON SHOCK I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those...
TAO LIN People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.
NIKKI SIXX I've always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials... I'd say things ...
TERI GARR I just want my baby back. There's no other words that I really can say ... I want my baby back.
KANEKA KIDD I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
MARILYN MANSON These are the moments I fall deeper in love with him. When neither of us says anything, and we just ...
AMANDA GRACE I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say mon...
CARMEN MIRANDA I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious...
MARIE OSMOND I can't say I had any idea (what would happen after 9/11), other than I knew things would change. Th...
JASON JACOBS As we say every year, I don't think anybody ever thinks that they had a bad draft. We are no differe...
KEVIN COLBERT I just want my baby again. That there are no other words I can say except that I want my baby back.
KANEKA KIDD I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things...
ADAM HICKS I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I...
DOUG AITKEN Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but...
DESMOND DEKKER I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wantin...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman...
SAM KEAN The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I&...
MICHAEL HEIZER Is there a chance? Yes. Would I say that every day? No. Would I say that in any other storm event so...
BOB RENARD I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each ot...
JEFF LINDSAY Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.
DON RICKLES Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, ...
DAN WHELDON I was looking through a newspaper and it was an audition for 'Kids Say the Darndest Things,'...
JOJO People would say, 'Boy, I really loved you in Ferris Bueller," and it would really aggravat...
ALAN RUCK People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
ALAN HANSEN From Mozart I learned to say important things in a conversational way. Conversation with Busoni
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I d...
COLEMAN HAWKINS I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the wa...
BODE MILLER You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There'...
EMINEM I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any othe...
HEDY LAMARR Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen...
TERRY PRATCHETT I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
BOB DYLAN I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
OLGA KURYLENKO I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing ...
BROCK TULLY There are two metaphors for Mario the person and not Mario the footballer. I think I am a man, but I...
MARIO BALOTELLI I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I have no idea why he would say that. All the players had apartments. ... He said things we don't un...
GREG COUCH He didn't say a lot so I tend to
remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER I was one of the first people in the Palestinian world, in the late 1970s, to say that there is no m...
EDWARD SAID Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I we...
HOWARD DEAN I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
VICTORIA BECKHAM Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So ...
ANDY WARHOL As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way y...
JAMIE REDKNAPP I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because peo...
PAOLO SORRENTINO There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING

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May the relief ...
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JOHN O'DONOHUE You are like nobody since I love you"
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
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ERICA O'ROURKE The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the r...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hat...
TAWNI O'DELL Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowsto...
R.B. O'BRIEN The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated cauti...
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TIM O'BRIEN It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
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PAT O'SHEA You're the fire burning inside of me.
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PETER O'TOOLE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ...
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HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we sha...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve...
P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion.
CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e...
JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev...
JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard...
R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer...
TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war.
TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ...
TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat...
TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein...
TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y...
TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s...
TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem...
TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,...
TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ...
TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for....
TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d...
TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w...
TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and...
TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y...
TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo...
TIM O'BRIEN But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.
TIM O'BRIEN A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of p...
TIM O'BRIEN They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink o...
TIM O'BRIEN She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth
PATRICK O'BRIAN