I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.
The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.
I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page
Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
Exhaust the little moment Soon it dies.
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.
The truth. . . When they have a similar structure to and are organized in as truthful a way as nature. When I look out of the window, then truth for me is the way nature shows itself in its various tones, colours and proportions. That's a truth and has its own correctness. This little slice of nature, and in fact any given piece of nature, represents to me an ongoing challenge, and is a model for my paintings.
We must just stay awake and see evil done for a little while it's not always.
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'
I've got to be a little more careful. A little more careful about what I say. Don't have too many drinks.
I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.
You have to start thinking a little differently as an actor.
Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat.
I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.
There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.
Hillary Clinton is getting a little bit of controversy because she has the most expensive hometown office rent - over $500,000 a year. She's in a one-year lease in the office, as opposed to her marriage, which is on a month-to-month.