Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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.

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.

Thomas Kinkade

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

We're trying to integrate the two buildings into one cultural arts center.

Jim Berg

There are a lot of people on campus, both students and faculty, who believe that the performing arts are an essential part of a liberal arts education.

Chelsea Cain

My husband and I were excited about having a kid - it was having a baby that had us worried. We had a lot to learn, so like good liberal arts graduates, we signed up for a class.

This seems to be the direction the city's taking. Watching it get wiped out like it's a bad disease is very disheartening. It's not just the club scene, it's also the arts scene that's being squeezed out by this rampant, merciless rent situation.

Cindy Morgan

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.

Robert Green Ingersoll

When men are prosperous, they are in love with life. Nature grows beautiful, the arts begin to flourish, there is work for painter and sculptor, the poet is born, the stage is erected - and this life with which men are in love is represented in a thousand forms.

Jay Kay

This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions. I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.

Jay Kay

This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, ... I am extremely pleased to be working with Electronic Arts on this exciting opportunity giving music and gaming fans the chance to live the Need for Speed TM experience.

We're hugely grateful to him for the role he has played in making arts discussion such an established part of the BBC Two mix,

We see it every day, so it is easy to take for granted. Missoula has a dynamic population with the university here and an incredible arts community that is vital for this kind of festival.

Martha Beck

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

We were really trying to help teacherstrying to bring arts to the classroom to find others ways of reaching the kids.

We're not into going into the political part of this. It's for the benefit of everybody to have an arts center for the neighborhood.

Jonathan Maberry

When my writing career took off, it was pretty easy to keep my ego in check because old-school martial arts isn't about ego gratification. It's about maintaining a balanced view of the world and your place in it.

We would like to thank all the people who made it possible for us to go and compete. We couldn't do this without the donations from the Wilson community. It really proves that there is a strong support for the arts here.

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.

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.

Amy Fisher

I say use Arts Walk as a goal, ... Create a body of work. It's a great way to discipline yourself, seeing if you can put together a show.

Dana Gioia

People have to recognize that the arts are a major industry and need to be at the table for the recovery plan, ... There is no way for these local economies to recover unless we invest in the cultural life. Culture was Louisiana's second-biggest economy, right after oil. These organizations have suffered enormous losses.

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.