“No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.” IfsFeelsArtBodyHandsSeemsEyeTogetherArtistStuffArt IsGesturesTotality Author:Frank Stella
“If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.” IfsYearsTogetherAsksStuffGroupsScaredAsk MeLooking Forward Author:Gerry Beckley
“I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons.” BodyTogetherStuffCareersBonesGlue Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.” MenWritingHandsTogetherPoetryStuffPiecesCupsBeastPieCoalRottenWriting PoetryWild Beasts Book:Windows that open inward: images of Chile Source: Windows that open inward: images of Chile
“I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.” PeopleWayTryingIdeasTogetherFilmFormStuffPhotographyPerformancesDeterminedSurfaceRetrospectPictures And Words Author:David Salle
“I used anything, various materials; this is wood, and this is mixed up clay, wedged together, clay with glazes and stuff like that.” TogetherUsedStuffMaterialsVariousWoodsClay Author:Joe Fafard
“Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.” WritingDifferentEndsWholeStoriesRunningTogetherStuffSubjectsApproachSeriesBunchStringsGood Writing Book:Ancient Gonzo Wisdom Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom
“We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.” KnowsMayLongHardProblemTogetherStuffAnswersTheoryCivilizationPhysicsAliensMathematicalRealmsGravityQuantumQuantum PhysicsGravitation Author:Paul Davies
“A piece of drapery is like a necktie, hot stuff to paint, and one of the easiest things for a painter to kid himself into thinking he can do. Don't be fooled by the color. Go after the shape and character. Hew the forms together with colored tones.” ThinkingCharacterKidsTogetherFormStuffCan DoPiecesColorShapesHotPaintPainterToneFooledNeckties Author:John French Sloan
“Our modern, rootless times do seem to be a particularly inhospitable environment for loyalty. We come and go so relentlessly that our friendships can't but come and go too. What sort of loyalty is there in the age of Facebook, when friendship is a costless transaction, a business of flip reciprocity.... Friendship held together by nothing more permanent than hyperlinks is hardly the stuff of selfless fidelity.” SeemsAgeTogetherStuffEnvironmentModernLoyaltyPermanentSelflessComes And GoesFidelityFlipTransactionsReciprocity Author:Eric Felten
“That GOP leadership, that establishment, they've got to get their stuff together I love what they believe in, I believe in it too. But they've got to get tough, man. You know what? It's not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now.” KnowsMenBelieveTogetherI BelieveStuffRight NowToughBallsEnglandI Believe InEstablishmentPatriotNew EnglandGopTough ManNew England Patriots Author:Sarah Palin
“I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.” PeopleMenWorldRealShowsBodyTogetherStuffInterestInterestingFashionMen And WomenReal LifeTrendsReally InterestingFashion ShowBurberryBirkenstocks Author:Meryl Streep
“I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentWholeTogetherStuffSonMomRaisedIntenseOpeningCelebrateRelateThrownHoliday Author:Paul Giamatti
“Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.” PeopleShouldKindMatterGovernmentWould BeTogetherJobsStuffPositionIdealsPlantBoringPleasantWireUtilityPower Plants Author:Grace Slick
“In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.” TryingArtDifferentSchoolTogetherMovingStuffRoomsStyleHigh SchoolJazzContemporaryMartial ArtsWrestlingFlipMixingWindmillsLunchtime Author:Caity Lotz
“There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.” WayWritingTogetherFilmActorsStuffDirectOrganizationFinanceSubstanceCinemaProseExpress Yourself Author:Werner Herzog
“Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.” LongHas BeensMadeMatterTogetherStuffBitsPeriodsFlowCloudsBe YouReplacedPersistFlux Author:Steve Grand
“My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidDifferentSchoolTogetherLawStuffCitiesCrazyMy FriendsMailSiteThey SaidBuddyLaw SchoolLove To Read Author:Tucker Max
“If something is meant to be, it's gonna work. If two people believe in something really strongly, I think a longdistance relationship is easy. They just make the time to be together. And you have to remember that any relationship is going to be hard...mostly because you're two different people and you have to figure stuff out.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveTwoDifferentHardTogetherRememberEasyStuffFiguresMeant To BeDifferent PeoplesDistance Relationship Author:Avril Lavigne
“My first break was in a Hong Kong movie that I shot in China - I was going out there and working as a western stunt man, if you like, but at the same time in England I was working in daytime soap stuff. Eventually I put the two together.” IfsMenFirstsTwoTogetherStuffBreakShotsEnglandWesternChinaGoing OutSoapHong KongDaytime Author:Scott Adkins
“These days I don't look to other people with the objective of trying to steal their licks, although I've got no objections to stealing them if that seems like a good idea. I'm sure that I'm still influenced by Mark Knopfler and Eddie Van Halen as well......I can't play like Eddie Van Halen. I wish I could. I sat down to try some of those ideas and can't do it. I don't know if I could ever get any of that stuff together. Sometimes I think I should work at the guitar more.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldTryingWellsLooksStillsI CanIdeasSometimesPlaySeemsTogetherWishStuffMarkGuitarStealingObjectivesThese DaysSatIf I CouldGood IdeasVansObjectionsVan Halen Author:David Gilmour
“There's people that say “It's not fair You have all that stuff.” I wasn't born with it. It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this- and by “new at it.” I mean 15 years in, or even 20- you're just starting to grow traction. Young musicians believe they should be able to throw a band together and be famous, and anything that's in their way is unfair and evil. What are you, in your 20s, you picked up a guitar? Give it a minute.” PeopleIfsWayGivingShouldYearsBelieveMeanWholeAbleTogetherYoungEvilGrowsStuffProcessBornMinutesBandMusicianFairsGuitarStartingWhole LifeHorribleUnfairNot FairTraction Author:Louis C. K.
“Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If youre into electronics, get an Arduino.” IfsTogetherStuffWonderfulInspiredInnovativeElectronicsPrinterWonderful Times Author:Bre Pettis
“I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.” IfsThinkingLooksRealPlayTogetherStuffComedyOfficeAbsurdAll TimeAwkwardStaffPausesAbsurdityMixturesTruthfulnessPathosChekhovWhimsy Author:Rainn Wilson
“I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff.” StillsBookKidsTogetherStuffHellFansSonHugeModelsComicBuyingMassiveComic BookNerdNemoYoungest Son Author:Jude Law
“People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.” PeopleThinkingTogetherUsedStuffCan DoLinesMusicCrazyBeatsBoringBoxingVocalBassReally CoolChoirCool MusicVocal Music Author:Isaac Hecker
“I've never gone to school for recording. I wish I understood it more. School's been hard, learning things has been hard, because of the A.D.H.D., or dyslexia, or whatever you want to call it, but I know how to come up with stuff to bring it together.” KnowsWantHas BeensHardSchoolTogetherWishStuffKnow HowGoneUnderstoodCome UpDyslexia Author:Hank Williams III
“Because of what I experienced when I was a kid, I want kids to have that kind of an epiphany moment, that little jolt, that little spark that they see when Dusty ['Planes'] flies higher than he has before. That scene where he flies straight up, and he's starting to get dizzy, and then finally it comes together. We forget as adults. We get jaded and we think that's kids' stuff, but for a kid who doesn't know about anything technical or how a movie is made, they're just going to see this and hear this beautiful score and see this dynamic, fantastical thing happening in front of them.” ThinkingKnowsWantKindLittlesMadeMomentsKidsTogetherBeautifulStuffForgetFrontsHigherSceneHappeningsAdultsStartingThings HappenPlanesScoreSparksEpiphanyDizzyJadedStraight Up Author:Dane Cook
“I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when millions of people were dying in concentration camps, when half the planet were colonies that belonged to empires. The word feminism didn't exist. And in my lifetime I have seen all these things improved, changed. We are more connected, more informed. We can fight against stuff together in ways we couldn't before.” PeopleWorldWayWarStatesTogetherFightingStuffBornUnitedHalfMillionsUnited StatesFeminismMiddleDyingChangedPlanetsLifetimeConnectedWar Of The WorldsBombsEmpiresConcentrationCampsColonySecond World WarAtomic BombHiroshimaConcentration CampHiroshima And Nagasaki Author:Isabel Allende
“If you haven't got a gun, you can't shoot anyone. We need to look at how these guns are getting into our communities. It's about replacing the negativity with good stuff. Give kids music studios in the community they can use for free and see how they learn to work together. Football and music unify kids.” IfsNeedsGivingLooksUseKidsTogetherStuffCommunityHavensFootballGunStudiosWorking TogetherNegativityOur Community Author:Ashley Walters
“I think that every collective that you witness occurring on a stage, it's not about any one of the individuals. There's something that's happened that's kind of put all that stuff together into a much bigger result ... some alchemy.” ThinkingKindTogetherIndividualStuffResultsHappenedStageBiggerWitnessCollectivesAlchemy Author:Maynard James Keenan
“I like "Rock, Paper, Scissors Two-Thirds." You know. "Rock breaks scissors." "These scissors are bent. They're destroyed. I can't cut stuff. So I lose." "Scissors cuts paper." "These are strips. This is not even paper. It's gonna take me forever to put this back together." "Paper covers rock." "Rock is fine. No structural damage to rock. Rock can break through paper at any point. Just say the word. Paper sucks." There should be "Rock, Dynamite with a Cutable Wick, Scissors."” KnowsShouldI CanTwoHumorFunnyTogetherStuffLosesBreakForeverCuttingRocksFinePaperThirdsDestroyedDamageTake MeBentBreak ThroughBack TogetherDynamiteScissors Author:Demetri Martin