"I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded."

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Elaine de Kooning

#Naked Quotes #West Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that theyâ€™re achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.”
“Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.”
“Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.”
“But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.”
“She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick. She looked hot and tired and surprisingly happy. He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn't the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last.”

Source : "Only by Chance".
“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”

Source : Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet
“I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.”
“Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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