Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Tim Curry

You see, there are always purists in every, in every art form and particularly I think in, in performance arts of any kind.

Roberta Smith

You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

Gustave Flaubert

You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Barbara Kruger

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

Kim Gordon

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

Elizabeth Price

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

Anju George

I have worked on my rhythm and landing and they have improved since my last competition. I am happy with the situation now.

Brenda Dam

I personally was very happy to take it because I knew we would pass it.

Shani Davis

Because it's an improvement. As long as I'm improving, I'm pretty happy if it's a world record or a rink record.

Byron Young

Highland is the No. 2 team in the nation and they are talented from one to 13 on the roster and we just don't have enough horses. But I am happy for my kids because we competed tonight.

Mark Trakh

Camille made some big shots there at the end. I thought we played hard and I was happy with how we executed down the stretch.

Kerri Blaylock

I'm very, very happy for him. I just don't want to see him go because of the consistency. This will take me a while to get used to.

Ron Cole

In essence, it's money that has already been authorized. It's not new money, but we're always happy to see legislators working on our behalf.

Larry Dixon

I'm not sure what Donnie (Bender) was trying to run on that pass, but it spun the tires early; I know he wasn't happy about that. He knew that he had to make some adjustments, but we got the win light.

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Florence Welch

On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

Ezra Taft Benson

We do not find the Savior using force or coercion to accomplish His purposes.

Henry Miller

The purpose of life is to remember.

Lord Byron

He said / Little, but to the purpose.

Gerald Edelman

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

J. I. Packer

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

Sheryl Swoopes

My purpose for doing it has nothing to do with throwing it in anybody's face,

Ian Anderson

It was instilled in me that the money I was given was not to be lost or spent on any other purpose.

Iyanla Vanzant

You work for God Incorporated.

Oswald Chambers

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

John Dewey

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

John Dewey

Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.

John Dewey

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

John Dewey

I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.

John Dewey

Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.

John Dewey

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

John Dewey

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

John Calvin

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.