Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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.

There are few things happening in our city right now that's more exciting than what's happening in the Arts District. We're getting this at a very low cost for our city. The backers they're putting their money where their mouth is.

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.

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.

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.

With more than 10 years of arts education experience behind him and an immense passion for the theater, I can think of no one more suitable for this position.

With millions of people walking through the National Museum of the American Indian, there is a solid vehicle at the national level to expose people to Indian arts and crafts. This underscores what we have known all along, that these museums are important but they serve a regional rather than a national audience. It is more appropriate for a regional entity to manage them.

We think demand for arts and crafts furniture and objects and 20th century decorative arts and stylish things are going to continue to be very much in demand and with that in view we will be holding a special sale of these items on February 28.

Laura Bush

Over the last 40 years the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities have strengthened our democracy by supporting our nation's ideals, institutions and emerging talents,

Our goal is to expose the community to a variety of fine arts and crafts.

Our booths vary from arts and crafts booths, to homemade purses, honey, knitted items, different food vendors, roasted peanuts, funnel cakes, fried twinkies, and much, much more.

Mike Gordon

Terry is a very experienced arts manager and very well educated. He's got a great record at the institutions he was at before. He's a very solid individual. He has a great vision of where the arts should be and what role the arts should play in the community.

Thank God for the arts center. But it's a lot harder for people to promote that image of Mesa.

Jessica Pare

My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.

Julie Bowen

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

My wife had been teaching, on and off, since the early '70s and, when we moved here in 1983, she restarted her teaching career in Fairfax County, ... I got into Northern Virginia's Cultural Arts program, doing storytelling at school assemblies.

Jonathan Maberry

My 'Rot & Ruin' series is a post-apocalyptic adventure for teens. My 'Joe Ledger' novels are science-based action thrillers for adults. My 'Dead of Night' stories are zombie tales for adults; my 'Pine Deep Trilogy' is classic horror for adults, and I've written nonfiction books on topics ranging from martial arts to folklore.

Jet Li

My personal philosophy stems from the deep understanding of martial arts and Chinese culture, and especially in the past eight years, the Buddhism thoughts shaped my ideology.

Alan Taylor

Lonnie Donahue is extremely enthusiastic, positive, extremely dedicated and a true professional. He has really breathed new life into the culinary arts program. He's a natural working with kids and students of all ranges.

Just getting nominated is insane. We'll find out if we're selected in April. That will be two weeks in Scotland at the largest arts festival in the world. It's a great honored just to be considered. Representing the United States would be a big thing.

Just as important as the music itself are to create community pride, encourage and support the arts in Fulton County and promote tourism.

Jet Li

I think Ang Lee is a very, very talented director. He used martial arts to talk about love and girl, you know... But Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts film to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope the world will become.

I think it's one of the great performance arts centers in the world. The performing arts in Australia have blossomed, I think, largely because of the role that this building plays.