Top 100 Agnes Quotes
#1. Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
Agnes Smedley
#2. There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.
Agnes Repplier
#3. What's the name for the space between stars?"
"No such name."
"Make one up."
I thought about it. "The soul asylum."
"That's another way of saying heaven, Agnes.
Hannah Kent
#4. If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.
Agnes Repplier
#5. Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
Agnes Obel
#6. The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
Agnes Varda
#7. Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
#8. I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.
Agnes Repplier
#9. Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
Agnes De Mille
#10. I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
Agnes Smedley
#11. Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Agnes De Mille
#12. When the desire ain't on me I don't need help. When it is on me I don't want any. See? Like the old fellah that never mended his roof. Said on a wet day he couldn't do it and on a dry day it was as good as anybody's.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
#13. The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.
Agnes Martin
#14. One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.
Agnes Denes
#15. The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
#16. Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
Agnes Denes
#17. People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.
Agnes Denes
#18. Art ... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
Agnes Repplier
#19. I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.
Agnes Denes
#20. I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
Agnes Denes
#21. The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
Agnes Obel
#22. But as a matter of strict fact, did Agnes have any "maternal" in her? When she set her mouth that way, it was hard to see it. Oh shucks, all women had maternal instincts; science had proved that. Well, hadn't they?
Robert A. Heinlein
#23. Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
Agnes Repplier
#24. Anything can be painted without representation.
Agnes Martin
#25. If a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
Agnes Repplier
#27. There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.
Agnes Repplier
#28. They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. "Buy yourself some chocolates, Tom."
It's what she'd say to him as a kid with a twenty cent coin.
Melina Marchetta
#29. I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
Agnes Macphail
#30. We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.
Agnes Meyer Driscoll
#31. To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
Agnes De Mille
#32. We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
Agnes Varda
#34. I don't have a daily routine at all.
Agnes Obel
#35. Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
Agnes Repplier
#36. The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.
Agnes Repplier
#37. I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
Agnes Obel
#38. It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Agnes Repplier
#39. I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.
Agnes Macphail
#40. I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
Agnes Denes
#41. People always understand everything in retrospect.
Agnes Denes
#42. Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
Agnes De Mille
#43. I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
Agnes Obel
#44. A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
Agnes Repplier
#45. The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.
Agnes Martin
#46. I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
Agnes De Mille
#47. I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
Agnes Varda
#48. Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
Agnes Denes
#49. A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
Agnes Repplier
#50. What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.
Ken Follett
#51. Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
Agnes Repplier
#52. It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.
Agnes Repplier
#53. English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
Agnes Repplier
#54. Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books ... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
Agnes Smedley
#55. I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
Agnes Macphail
#56. For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
Imelda Staunton
#57. I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
Agnes Macphail
#58. The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.
Agnes Baker Pilgrim
#59. Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
Agnes Obel
#61. We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.
Agnes Repplier
#62. The easiest thing humans can do is fall in love. The hardest thing is learning what it takes to stay in love.
Agnes H. Hagadus
#63. The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
Agnes Repplier
#64. It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
#66. I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
Agnes Varda
#67. The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.
Agnes Macphail
#68. I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
Agnes Varda
#69. When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
Agnes Obel
#70. To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking
Agnes De Mille
#71. When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
Agnes Varda
#72. It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Agnes Repplier
#73. Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.
Jude Morgan
#74. I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.
Frederick Buechner
#75. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green.Sarah Agnes Prine
Nancy E. Turner
#76. It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
Agnes Repplier
#77. Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
Agnes Smedley
#78. When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
Agnes Obel
#79. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
#80. Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
Agnes Martin
#81. The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplier
#82. But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
Agnes Smedley
#83. To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.
Agnes Repplier
#84. What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care ... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.
Agnes Obel
#85. Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.
Agnes Repplier
#86. No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
Agnes Smedley
#87. The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.
Agnes Repplier
#88. There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.
Agnes Repplier
#89. The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
Agnes Repplier
#90. If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
Agnes Denes
#91. The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes De Mille
#92. The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
Agnes Repplier
#93. The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal ... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.
Agnes Martin
#94. Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
Agnes Varda
#96. What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
Anne Bronte
#97. For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.
Agnes Repplier
#98. I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
Agnes Varda
#100. I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be 'on' and have everybody looking at you, that is so incredibly scary for me.
Agnes Bruckner
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