Famous Quotes & Sayings

Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep liberal arts background. So we'd go to lunch and people would talk about their favorite seventeenth-century poets, and I'd be thinking, 'Could I even name five poets? From any century?'

They bring retail sales tax back into the borders of the city of Tulsa. And, that's what supports the police, supports the fire, supports public education and supports the arts, the more good corporate citizens we have remaining in the city, the more our arts will be supported.

There's a good buzz. It's really cool because this is not really a sports-oriented school, being liberal arts and everything. But everybody is talking about it.

The traditional arts of this country don't need rescuing,

We expect Electronic Arts to have a compelling holiday lineup versus its peers, which should be a catalyst.

David Ward

This is the rush for a global proposition. It's very evident, with the moves from Electronic Arts and others, that we're at the beginnings of real scale in this industry, and the winners are going to be those who can offer a global solution.

This is their program and I wanted to get them involved in every aspect of it. We offer other drawing and painting classes and an arts program and I wanted to try and bring it all together. I thought this was a good avenue.

They're always interested in stories, ... and we have basket-making days and cultural days where we make some of the different arts and crafts. We make baskets and we try to give those wherever we go.

In terms of administration, program and culture, it's just beginning. We're still choosing a name for the merged organization. It could be Acme Arts for all I care, the value is in what we do and, to a certain extent, where we do it.

George Bernard Shaw

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine

Gene Luen Yang

In my research, I learned that the Boxers' kung fu wasn't all that formalized. The vast majority of them didn't belong to some age-old martial arts tradition. They were basically poor, starving teenagers doing the best they could to figure out how to fight, relying more on their mystical beliefs than formal training.

JWoww

I'm an only child. Mostly raised by my father outside of Saratoga, doing martial arts and snowmobiling. I wore sweaters, jeans and sneakers. I was more interested in four-wheeling in the Catskills than doing my hair and makeup at 7 A.M. before school.

I didn't start carving until after I went to school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1966.

James Marsden

I didn't know what my passion was until I discovered the dramatic arts in junior high and high school and I realized, 'Oh, I like this. This is something I feel like I'm good at.' But, the idea of moving to Hollywood and becoming an actor was really unrealistic.

High school students are in for a real treat. Chefs in the City(TM) is going to be full of challenging and innovative opportunities for students to showcase their talents, learn more about careers in the culinary and pastry arts and talk to some exceptional industry guests. The language and business of food can translate into some fun and rewarding careers.

Mark O'Connor

I don't recall having, in recent memory, anything remotely resembling this kind of an event where the need is to bring back a group of people dispersed by a calamity. It signifies not only a healing for their symphony and what they've worked for. It also represents the larger community of New Orleans musicians. That's exactly what people there are wanting to do. They want to put their community back together. And that community needs to heal with what the arts can give the heart and soul.

In Dyersville, it's like our Arts & Crafts festival only it's a three-day sale. They have a museum and they close their schools and use the gymnasium for vendors.

I like the project they're doing -- a new building -- and we need to build on the arts and support our younger artists.

Intellectual pursuits are more well-rounded when people have arts as a means to observe as well. Part of learning has a lot to do with delight.

In order for this to work, we're going to need a plethora of highly educated teachers. We don't have those teachers right now. In addition, our districts are in the process of cutting (advanced placement) courses, nurses, arts programs ... we just have major financial constraints.

Danny Devito

I'll tell you one thing. I love Philadelphia. One of the first things I did outside of New York was at the Theater of the Living Arts on South Street.

I know he's met with the governor already on this project, which in turn is an important portion of it because the state has $15 million invested in the performing arts center,

This is a facility that will propel the arts programs at USU into national and international attention. It will be a magnet to lure people. We will get great performers who want to perform in a hall like this. Students can hear what it sounds like to perform in Carnegie Hall.

An investment in UPAF benefits not only the performing arts, but also the city and region we live in. Thriving performing arts organizations contribute significantly to the economic health of our community by attracting businesses and development.

Electronic Arts has gone to great lengths to capture the unique features of college baseball,

Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas

Durham School of the Arts played very well. They have a very well coached team that plays with a lot of heart. We didn't play with much emotion in singles, but all three doubles teams played well under pressure.

Jonathan Tucker

Even a Ph.D. microbiologist doesn't know the dark arts of putting microbes into weapons.

John Bradley

There's practically not one aspect of the arts that's not included in this program. Narrative, poetry, dance, sculpture - there's something for everybody. Opera works really well for integrating the arts.

Norm Dicks

Every community in my district has benefited from the National Endowment for the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

CSF 150 is designed for students without a previous background in computer science and uses examples from the arts and sciences to motivate students.

There has always been a strong emphasis on the creative arts in this community.

Ben Shapiro

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.