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Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are ...
HEDDA HOPPER

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
HEDDA 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

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
HEDDA HOPPER I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.
HEDDA STERNE People ask me why I didn't just leave him. For battered women, it's not a matter of 'just.' The grea...
HEDDA NUSSBAUM I never thought that anyone who loved me could hurt me. Abuse is very subtle. Abusers are very subtl...
HEDDA NUSSBAUM My daughter seems to have stopped breathing.
HEDDA NUSSBAUM

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

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more in...
EDWARD HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
GRACE HOPPER

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD 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

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwill...
EDWARD 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

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly ...
EDWARD 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

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 find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
EDWARD 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

[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 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 GOODBYE, THE TRADITIONAL MARKETING! HELLO, NEUROMARKETING!
DR. HEDDA MARTINA ŠOLA

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 safebut 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 It's easier to seek forgiveness than it is to get permission.
REAR ADMIRAL GRACE MURRAY HOPPER

Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

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