Calder N Quotes

#1. If you have a problem with me, call me. If you don't have my number then that means you don't know me well enough to have a problem.

Eleanor Calder

#2. The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

Nigel Calder

#3. I paint with shapes.

Alexander Calder

#4. Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?'

Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?'

'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?'

'The kind you obey.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it ... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

Alexander Calder

#6. When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Alexander Calder

#7. My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.

Alexander Calder

#8. Calder kissed me in a way that made me believe I had no only always been his, but I would be his forever. In this life or any other. In his kiss was the promise that wherever he and I existed, we would belong to each other.

Mia Sheridan

#9. To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Alexander Calder

#10. In May 2006, I had our son, Calder. I spent the next couple of years learning how to be a mom.

Lisa Cholodenko

#11. The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder - our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.

Owen Wilson

#12. Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.

Nigel Calder

#13. You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Alexander Calder

#14. these are residues of a dream world that form a historical border to the next era,

Evan Calder Williams

#15. That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

Alexander Calder

#16. Some things must happen so that others may come to pass.

Lynda A. Calder

#17. You are my only accomplishment.

Brenda Joyce

#18. Can't live in a crazy forest that's trying to kill you without a top-of-the-line stabbing stick.

James Tynion IV

#19. Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Peter Ritchie Calder

#20. That is how the atom is split. But what does it mean ? To us who think in terms of practical use it means - Nothing !

Peter Ritchie Calder

#21. I'd rather lie in a hammock with you
with nothing but happiness surrounding us
and be ambushed than run away.

Anne Greenwood Brown

#22. The gods created this place for us," I whispered, smiling dreamily. Calder paused, brushing his lips once more across my throat before responding. "Yes." I felt him smile against my skin. "Why do you think they did that?" "So we'd have a place to fall in love.

Mia Sheridan

#23. My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

Alexander Calder

#24. My fingers always seem busier than my mind.

Alexander Calder

#25. Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions.

Alexander Calder

#26. The basis of everything I do is the universe.

Alexander Calder

#27. To win the Calder Trophy means a lot. It means a lot. I don't have words. I could tell you in Russian.

Alexander Ovechkin

#28. The thing is, Calder, it's not always a choice who you develop feelings for. You're playing with fire in more ways than one. Any fool can see the way you two look at each other.

Mia Sheridan

#29. I don't know why you're so hard to convince," I said, "But I'm really not that bad of a guy."
"Spoken like a true serial killer.

Anne Greenwood Brown

#30. Above all, art should be fun.

Alexander Calder