Been Quotes

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.

I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.

I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.