John Chamberlain Quotes

#1. I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

John Chamberlain

#2. A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.

John Chamberlain

#3. You don't realize the atmosphere in the arena until you're down on the ice for real, especially during the playoffs. You come out of the gate, you hear the fans going crazy, you know you're at home and in for a good time. It's something special, that's for sure.

Joe Thornton

#4. It was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you
leaving you no options for its use?

John Irving

#5. I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

Banksy

#6. Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

Carine Roitfeld

#7. Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

John Chamberlain

#8. That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

Brendan Sexton III

#9. Outside, the night lay coiled in the street, cobra-cold and scaled with stars.

Peter S. Beagle

#10. Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II ... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.

John Chamberlain

#11. When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.

Wallace D. Wattles

#12. Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

John Chamberlain

#13. But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.

John Chamberlain

#14. Any kind of blockage is heart disease; when you have a blood clot anywhere, that's heart disease. When Wilt Chamberlain died, strongest man I ever met in my life, I started paying attention.

John Salley

#15. Elena?"
"Yes, unless Nick found a woman in the forest, which I suppose wouldn't be too surprising.

Kelley Armstrong

#16. It was harder, I thought, to watch someone in pain than to be in it yourself.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. I came to the conclusion, that if my advice wouldn't be taken by those who needed it most and was stolen by those who could well afford to pay for it, that I would hereafter give advice only to myself and always sell it to others.

William H. McMaster

#18. I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.

Madonna Ciccone

#19. Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

James Redfield

#20. I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

Noel Gallagher

#21. We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

Charles Koch

#22. I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

John Chamberlain

#23. I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount ... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed ... I believe that common materials are the best materials.

John Chamberlain

#24. Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

John Chamberlain

#25. The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

John Chamberlain