Famous Quotes & Sayings

I do not think it's appropriate to have elected officials sit in judgment, or have to vote, on arts issues. I think that's going to jeopardize what we have in Scottsdale.

Tony Jaa

I watch mostly every martial arts movie... I really like movies that aren't just martial arts. I like movies that have spiritual meaning behind them, like samurai movies, or movies that have meditation.

Tony Jaa

I practice martial arts not to win over other people but to win over my own heart.

Sonya Hartnett

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

There are so many strategies that the arts teaches as far as higher-level thinking. To take kids out of the arts is kind of like taking a child out of science to do math.

I can't find a significant national politician who really will take a major stand for the arts because there's not much political capital in it and in fact there may be some downside,

I think it's a great idea. I think we have a lot to show off in this community. We have more high-quality performing arts per capita than many of our sister cities.

Basic self-defense classes teach you 200 different techniques for 200 different situations, and the martial arts teach intricate techniques that require practice, but will prove to be more effective.

James Buckley

I felt it was too much of a struggle to have a career in the arts. I wanted to be able to retire one day . . . an arts career has no guarantees, no pensions and is too risky. I always knew I would return to dental school.

It is all about connecting the arts and the sciences.

Having the support of the board and the district for culinary arts and community baking has really made a difference in the success of the kids.

Historically scientific research has been more popular, and liberal arts has lagged behind. The awards for the arts are much smaller.

I enjoy it very much and it helps keep me active. I like to be busy, and teaching is a two-way street. I have the opportunity to help others and in turn I learn from the young minds who are in our classes. We have to get more young people involved in helping to perpetuate the arts in this area.

For three decades the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has been a fervent supporter of the American playwright. It is vital that we continue to support those writers who relate the ongoing American saga for the stage. This award brings the appropriate recognition to the important role the playwright serves in American Arts & Letters.

Aldous Huxley

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

Anthony Zerbe

I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don't know what I'll say. I don't plan a thing. It's just the energy of these young people. They're the next generation, and what they have is very representative of how I felt when I was 19 or 20 or so. I'm really happy to be with them.

When we first approached The ARTS at Marks Garage and other galleries about MAMo, they really embraced the idea and ran with it.

J. C. Watts

One of the chief considerations of the decorative arts galleries was that they should be suitable for the display of textiles, and for this initial exhibition we have chosen mainly textiles from the 15th through the 17th centuries,

I grew up mostly on the East Coast in Baltimore. Great education, medicine, the arts were all a given.

JWoww

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

I always knew I wanted to something in the arts as far as a career. But (until deciding on the circus), I was never sure what I wanted to do.

McG

I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn't really the best-looking kid in my town and I sort of pined after girls. I had to sort of immerse myself in the arts because girls weren't particularly interested in me.

Lawrence Summers

He is not only an immensely talented and versatile performer, but also someone who has given a great deal of himself to the university and especially to the vitality of the arts at Harvard,

We've been thinking a lot about inspiration. We wanted to see if the processes involved with creating visual arts and writing songs could come together in one place.

Angela Davis

We took her to see Dorothy Hamill at the Morris (Performing Arts Center), and she was delighted, ... She thought it was awesome.

When he was in his late 60s, he was still beating us young kids who thought we were hot stuff, but was still nice enough to work with us and help us along. So I always had it in the back of my mind that there was this Zen kind of philosophy, this martial arts aspect to fencing.

Milla Jovovich

When you're able to survive a martial arts workout session, it definitely builds your stamina and builds your tolerance.

John Trudell

When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

Tao Lin

I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

Steven Michael Quezada

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

Norm Dicks

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

My friends, all Hispanic girls, we went to school with the kids from North, Central and Alhambra, and we discovered we were not attuned to their level. 'Are they smarter than us?' we asked, ... I learned later about the arts and grammar. I don't want our kids to feel at a disadvantage when they reach high school.