If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more in...
EDWARD HOPPER If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwill...
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly ...
EDWARD HOPPER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
HEDDA HOPPER You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are ...
HEDDA HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
GRACE HOPPER They recognize that the worst way to punish them is to kick them out of school.
ALLEN HOPPER If the 9th Circuit says, 'The sky is blue,' they ( the Supreme Court ) would want to review the deci...
ALLEN HOPPER The White House wants California to march in lockstep with its misguided prohibition of medical mari...
ALLEN HOPPER I am excited, and I applaud the city council for its creativity and bold decision to put the issue s...
ALLEN HOPPER Here you have police officers on the front line whose reputations have been horribly tarnished, if n...
ALLEN HOPPER If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get per...
GRACE HOPPER Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are ...
HEDDA HOPPER I had final cut, and I cut my own throat.
DENNIS HOPPER To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
DENNIS HOPPER He's simply the best, and if he wants to call acting merely a craft, then he's the greatest craftsma...
DENNIS HOPPER I had final cut, they wanted me to re-edit it, I refused,
DENNIS HOPPER I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, ...
DENNIS HOPPER In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of th...
DENNIS HOPPER I voted for Bush, and I don't have anything to disapprove of.
DENNIS HOPPER I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
HEDDA HOPPER Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independen...
DENNIS HOPPER I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
HUGH HOPPER I live in a city that is billboards. Billboards and graffiti.
DENNIS HOPPER I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, '...
GRACE HOPPER Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors...
HUGH HOPPER She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
HEDDA HOPPER At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money an...
HEDDA HOPPER [Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis...
DENNIS HOPPER Our intent is not vindictiveness. Something has to be done.
GARY HOPPER In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
HEDDA HOPPER Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have in...
HUGH HOPPER He's got a pretty even temperament. He doesn't get too upset if things aren't going his way. Even if...
EDDIE HOPPER 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was ...
DENNIS HOPPER My crew and I airlifted nearly 100 people from the roof of a building and onto a field where ambulan...
DAVID HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE HOPPER We were a cash-strapped park before the hurricane. Now we are an incredibly cash-strapped post-Hurri...
JOHN HOPPER because the reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world...
DENNIS HOPPER People would be surprised to know that,
DENNIS HOPPER The Crow: Wicked Prayer
DENNIS HOPPER He's a smooth, cool, intelligent actor who loves to work.
DENNIS HOPPER You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photog...
DENNIS HOPPER We hope the city defendants, especially Mayor Wilder, will use this as an opportunity to take the le...
DAVID HOPPER We are pleased to be part of this campaign as while people are good at recycling their green glass, ...
DAVID HOPPER It's rewarding to help our fellow Americans, ... The crew knows that these people don't have a home ...
DAVID HOPPER We've got to tackle better. We've got to get first downs. We can't give the ball to them on the 50-y...
DAVID HOPPER The Kiwanis does worldwide community service and our little local club decided to do our share. We s...
DAVID HOPPER A group of smaller local sponsors, racers and interested parties got together in June and decided to...
LARRY HOPPER When he makes a bogey, 75 percent of the time it's not because he hit a bad shot; it's due to three-...
EDDIE HOPPER He's got pretty long ball off the tee. He's learned to hit those short wedges in there. He's good at...
EDDIE HOPPER Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact wi...
HUGH HOPPER I really don't have a shopping list of musicians. You can never tell who is going to spark off that ...
HUGH HOPPER Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if...
HUGH HOPPER Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, ori...
HUGH HOPPER With the Navy's presence, there will be no doubt about what the venue represents.
LARRY HOPPER Without the volunteers, World Care doesn't exist.
LISA HOPPER Fifty thousand would make a huge impact.
LISA HOPPER While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
HENRY HOPPER We do not believe that Mike's conduct during the tournament appropriately represents the deep-seated...
RANDY HOPPER I knew if we kept it close, we had a shot. Our kids have a tremendous amount of heart. We don't quit...
TONY HOPPER At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I pl...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It ...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I only know one person who was able to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. That w...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn in...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for i...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanos...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You manage things; you lead people
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for o...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "Wha...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER The most damaging phrase in the language is, "It's always been done that way".
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, 'Information'; for in ...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Congress did not intend the term 'navigable waters' to be given the broadest possible constitutional...
M. REED HOPPER Anywhere water flows is a tributary in their book.
M. REED HOPPER We're a bit surprised the court took this case, but we have a new court with Judge Roberts.
M. REED HOPPER We're ecstatic. He's the ultimate folk hero, standing up to the government over a matter of principl...
M. REED HOPPER The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD It's easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission.
REAR ADMIRAL GRACE MURRAY HOPPER We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
EDWARD BOND There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l...
EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death.
EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly...
EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years.
EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.
EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.
EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousa...
EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, ...
EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ...
EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str...
EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ...
JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called...
EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori...
EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and...
EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as...
EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass...
EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have...
EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick......
EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa...
EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.
EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see What gay distress! what splendid misery! Whate...
EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam...
EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi...
EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ...
EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe...
EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem.
EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin...
EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از...
EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h...
EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig...
EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust.
EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei...
EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ...
EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lou...
EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c...
EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
EDWARD YOUNG A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
EDWARD GIBBON The man that makes a character, makes foes.
EDWARD YOUNG The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER