Famous Quotes & Sayings

I soon see the day where the symphony and the opera company will be doing a full opera with a full symphony orchestra in the new Performing Arts Centre,

Jon Favreau

I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.

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

Jake Shimabukuro

Bruce Lee loved all different styles of martial arts. He believed that you shouldn't limit yourself to one style, because martial arts is just another form of human expression.

He always seemed to be an expert in anything and everything I needed to know. He was very knowledgeable culturally, just so aware, he knew about all the arts and introduced me to the arts.

Heartland reflects well on us because it's one of our premier arts organizations.

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.

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

Chris Jones

Because of a lack of arts education, children are not able to make distinctions. I think it's a chronic problem.

By and large, it's easier for males to get into liberal arts colleges than it is for females.

Philip Rosedale

By nature of its unlimited potential, Second Life has already attracted a large community of creative individuals from a wide range of disciplines. By creating the Linden Lab Fellowship, we hope that we will encourage students of the expressive arts to explore the potential of the virtual world, for the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.

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.

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.

David Rosen

The basic rationale is that performing arts courses are more expensive to teach and support. The classes are smaller, so there is more faculty.

It's an excellent problem. It speaks to the success of the arts district.

Peter Krause

Everyone likes pie. But people like pie a la mode even better. In the pie of life, arts is the ice cream.

Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.

Sathya Baba

They found that the Vedas contain the secrets of all the arts which confer progress on man.

This pattern is fundamental to probably all Japanese art, particularly the performing arts or poetry. The Japanese feel it's actually the rhythm of nature.... Nature is a continuous process of beginnings, accelerated development and quick endings.

There's a broad feeling that it's our responsibility and our pleasure to introduce the arts to kids.

I've just been overwhelmed by the outpouring of people who want to help our arts organizations and artists. ... They want to give money, they want to help,

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?'

It seems like it's on the outer edge of town, but with so much buzz about North College Avenue, pretty soon it will be in the heart. I don't think people realize the quality of arts we have in this community.

It was considered a real model for arts centers. It was multidisciplinary. There was space for the performing arts, film and gallery spaces, and the atrium was set up for trade shows and exhibits.

It was a real arts community. Everyone left their studios open so you could come in and see what they were working on or just borrow something.

It's got lovely arts and crafts details in it. It just needed someone to take care of it.

It's remarkable that the town has the vision and supports this. Other towns have arts programs, but the money is usually administered by non-profits.

It's safe to say that the image of Atlanta does currently lag behind the reality of Atlanta. It has a terrific arts scene, great restaurants, great cultural venues and facilities. What they now need is a way to bring that reality out in the open in a simple and memorable way.

It's really different from the other movie games we have made. Here at Electronic Arts this type of game play is a real breakthrough for us. This sets a foundation.

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.