Marfa Quotes

#1. My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa.

Owen Wilson

#2. It was impossible to tell at first sight whether he loved his meek, obedient wife, Marfa. But he really did lover her, and she knew it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

Ben Lerner

#4. No, no, no! I am not giving birth backstage at a rock concert. I need to be in a hospital, pumped full of every drug that they can legally give me!
I was so shocked, my only repsonse was,
'Well, he was conceived backstage at a concert, so it's sort of fitting for him to be born at one.

S.C. Stephens

#5. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

Franklin Graham

#6. Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

Frederick The Great

#7. Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself
and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I.

Ben Lerner

#8. You are fierce with words," he said, his eyes gleaming. "I have no other means," she replied, leveling her chin.

Matt Tomerlin

#9. I was taught to watch for gentle souls, as they've not the wit to look after themselves.

Erika Swyler

#10. In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.

Milton Friedman

#11. The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

Anatoliy Golitsyn

#12. Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.

John Whitmore

#13. Truthless times need timeless truths.

Mark Driscoll

#14. I look at the past and I see myself.

Miriam Makeba