Top 100 Quotes About Hopper
#1. I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.
Donald Judd
#2. Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.
Megan Smith
#3. I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.
Frankie Manning
#4. Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
Amber Tamblyn
#5. He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
Nathan Lane
#6. Too bad I couldn't take Hopper out drinking with me. He could have become Bar Hopper.
Richelle Mead
#7. By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
Walter Isaacson
#8. I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
Donald Judd
#9. I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation ... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.
Michael Eric Dyson
#10. As an aside, Hop got gold stars because he had buttermilk available for pancakes. These stars started shining when he told me pancakes weren't worth making without buttermilk and, since this was the God's honest truth, I took it as happy indication that Hopper Kincaid and I might just be soul mates.
Kristen Ashley
#11. While sitting on the hopper, in a blissful state of belieflessness, the Universe sent me this silly pun: Arrogant know-it-alls actually know nothing,
while humble know-nothings seem to know everything...
Maximus Freeman
#12. I'm not much of a fly tier. I can do it - my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying' - and I tie some cool flies that I can't buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.
Jack Ohman
#13. Happiness was attainable for anyone who had enough courage to reach for it. Just because I had to reach further than some only made it that much more appreciated. Today, in this moment, I was wrapping both hands around my happiness, grabbing it tight. Hopper's
Cambria Hebert
#14. On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper - all your choices should be so easy.
Sandra Bernhard
#15. Hopper's paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly toxic and strangulating with age.
Olivia Laing
#16. Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.
Wim Wenders
#17. You're very arrogant, Hopper Kincaid."
"Yeah, well, man gets that way when a woman that looks like you comes as hard as I can make you come.
Kristen Ashley
#18. What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.
Julie Taymor
#19. Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
Donald Judd
#20. Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.
Wendy Williams
#22. In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.
Vinnie Jones
#23. I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.
Harlan Coben
#24. Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me."
"Do you mean you want a secretary or something?"
"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.
Daphne Du Maurier
#25. I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.
Tom Folsom
#28. Didn't you have one when you were little? What was his name, Hopper?" "Yeah," I said, resisting the urge to punch him on the arm. Hopper? Really? "Best rabbit ever.
Richelle Mead
#29. It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'
Tom Hardy
#30. Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.
Erykah Badu
#31. For what it's worth, I've been a hip-hopper from birth.
Try to disrespect, and get your ass played up like a Smurf.
Extra P
#32. Is Hopper celebrating with you?"
"Hopper? Why would - " My mouth snapped shut for a few moments. "Oh. I, uh, kind of forgot about him.
Richelle Mead
#33. The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
Marshall McLuhan
#34. In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn't budge a log, they didn't try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn't be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers. - Grace Hopper
Tom White
#35. Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
J.R. Moehringer
#36. America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin nights ... the America we yearned for has gone. Did it ever exist?
Michael Bywater
#38. Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.
Donald Judd
#39. What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper's painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper's vision we see more.
Robert Adams
#40. I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.
David Lynch
#41. I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
Jim Crace
#42. Hopper's best friend, Dean Stockwell, who starred with him in 'Blue Velvet,' let me watch golf with him while parsing out memories of when he and Hopper went off the deep end in Mexico.
Tom Folsom
#43. I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.
Chris Matthews
#44. I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.
Ann Rule
#45. Finally, leaders focus on people. In the words of Grace Murray Hopper, computer scientist and rear admiral in the US Navy, "You manage things; you lead people." Naturally,
Jocelyn Davis
#46. Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the Hopper. What we're saying to the broadcasters is, 'There's a way for you not to put your head in the sand.'
Charlie Ergen
#47. I know that I'm freer as a hip-hopper than as an executive. Even as a black man, I enjoy more freedom as a hip-hopper than as a black man. That, s controversial to say, but it's the truth.
KRS-One
#48. I was extreme ... from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time.
Pink
#49. Maine likes to call itself 'America's Vacationland.' For many artists, though, it's the office. Since the 19th century, painters from all over the country - including Edward Hopper, Alex Katz, John Marin, Fairfield Porter, Neil Welliver and Andrew Wyeth - have spent large chunks of time there.
Terry Teachout
#50. It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper
#51. Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)
Grace Murray Hopper
#52. The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'
Grace Hopper
#53. The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward Hopper
#54. The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
Tom Hopper
#55. If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but ... to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.
Grace Hopper
#56. And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
Hedda Hopper
#57. At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.
Hedda Hopper
#58. It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
Grace Hopper
#59. Utopia has a way of hiding in plain sight.
David Hopper
#60. I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
Edward Hopper
#61. Because deep down you know that someone needs to keep you out of trouble.
Mike L. Hopper
#62. Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
Hedda Hopper
#64. When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!
Dennis Hopper
#65. I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
Hedda Hopper
#66. To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
Edward Hopper
#67. Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
Dennis Hopper
#69. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.
Jon Michaelsen
#70. I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper
#71. I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper
#72. 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
Dennis Hopper
#73. When you travel across London, it can take two hours to get from one end of London to the other, when it actually takes me two hours to get up to Leicester.
Tom Hopper
#74. After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper
#75. If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper
#76. Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.
David Hopper
#77. People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.
Dennis Hopper
#79. You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.
Dennis Hopper
#80. I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Edward Hopper
#81. There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward Hopper
#82. It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
Edward Hopper
#83. Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper
#84. 'Merlin' was a big step; it was my first big role in a show.
Tom Hopper
#85. In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper
#86. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
Grace Hopper
#87. I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.
Dennis Hopper
#88. I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Henry Hopper
#89. I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest.
Tom Hopper
#90. We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.
Grace Hopper
#91. I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.
Dennis Hopper
#92. I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.
Grace Hopper
#93. Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.
Dennis Hopper
#94. When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
Edward Hopper
#95. In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
Hedda Hopper
#96. The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward Hopper
#97. If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!
Grace Hopper
#98. If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Edward Hopper
#99. Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.
Dennis Hopper
#100. I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.
Henry Hopper
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