F.B. Newman Quotes

Ideas visuales combinadas con tecnología e interpretación personal es igual a fotografía

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.

A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

From salad dressings all blessings flow.

God created you to do him some particular service. He has given some work to you that he has not given to another. You have your mission. You shall do good.

I see nothing in the theory of evolution inconsistent with an Almighty Creator and Protector.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

Where the hell are the singing cats?

People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

The spaghetti sauce is a good thing to think about. Morning, noon, and night, think about the spaghetti sauce. Think about hustling other people to buy the spaghetti sauce.

The most important thing about a family is that all the people in it love each other.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

I can eat fifty eggs.

Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers.

The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction!

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.