Vija Quotes

#1. She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.
Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

Don DeLillo

#2. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

Dan Heisman

#3. I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

Alastair Reynolds

#4. I have depeloped a substance which allows me to command time at my discretion.

Rene Barjavel

#5. There aren't really rules for painting, but there's certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and sort of translate it. They're like translations, and then part of it is fiction, which is invention.

Vija Celmins

#6. I don't go on dates. I don't go to cafes. I don't care about celebrities or which sport team just won, My universe exists with my entire mind.

Islam Atef Aly

#7. The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Bob Barker

#8. There's a very interesting dynamic with horses and couples. With couples, the horses react most dramatically. It is amazing how they pick up on underlying tension or other issues that couples themselves don't see.

Valerie Ormond

#9. I'm not a very confessional artist, you know. I don't ever reveal what I'm feeling in my work, or what I think about the President. I use nature. I use found images.

Vija Celmins

#10. When they brought in communism it was for the people, so they killed the people. Now they've brought in capitalism, which is for the rich, so they only kill the rich. This time you and I have nothing to worry about.

Rana Dasgupta

#11. You see, Valentin, there is no such thing as time. It's just a road, a path to travel on. Most of the world is on a train, traveling forward all the time, speeding toward death, with a set schedule and someone else in charge.

Daniel Nayeri

#12. The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#13. Don't put off until tomorrow what can be done today. Procrastination is a sign of weak character.

Carol Cox

#14. Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.

Vija Celmins

#15. Why do men have nipples? Because God is a woman and she really wants us to enjoy ourselves, that's why.

Cameron Dean