Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. O. Wilson

work closely with other arts organizations, civic and community groups, and local businesses to form alliances and supportive networks.

Carl Maria von Weber

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

Yes, a black belt should be able to execute precise, effective, beautiful, and technically proficient martial arts techniques, whatever the style. But just as importantly, a black belt should be able to execute precise and beautiful ideas, equal to or better than their physical techniques. A black belt should have an attitude equal in its brilliance to his or her physical skills.

Jessica Clark

Work out really hard and be confident because bodies are beautiful, sensual and natural. I've also trained in Wushu, a form of martial arts - it's very beautiful and flowy, and it's predominantly used in fight scenes in movies, which is how it was introduced to me, and I just love it.

We're extremely excited to have Lisa on board. Her communications and arts promotion background, as well as her exposure to the national and local poetry communities, will prove hugely beneficial to us.

Dana Gioia

Through Great American Voices, the NEA is building bridges between the military and arts community, ... This tour gives singers a chance to perform for new audiences and brings great music in live performance to military families.

We are not an all-ages dance club. We are a skills-building youth music and arts program that also does concerts.

Steven Michael Quezada

We've taken some performing arts schools on the set of 'Breaking Bad.'

We're happy to end our participation in this season of' Arts Nights, City Lights' with an evening of music and fun for the whole family.

Kurt Angle

I've been chastised for going into mixed martial arts and backing out. But the reason I backed out was the terms - they wanted me ready to fight in four weeks, but you've got to be out of your mind. So I decided to go back to my roots, back to wrestling.

Robert Reich

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

Torsten Wiesel

Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.

Sophocles

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Scott Adkins

I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

Akira Suzuki

Including my nine years as a student, the majority of my life has been at Hokkaido University. After my retirement from the university in 1994, I served at two private universities in Okayama Prefecture - Okayama University of Science and Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts - before retiring from university work in 2002.

Aimee Bender

I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.

To me, this represents Arts in Stark putting its money where its mouth is. We said we're going to be bigger than this (Cultural Center) building, and this list proves it.

We're embarking on a first-in-the-nation project, ... We want to find out why Generation Xers come to arts events; if they do, why. Why they don't, if they don't, and what it takes to attract them in the first place.

George Lois

In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.

Tom Brokaw

I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.

Michel Faber

When I was a kid, it was thought I would do something in the visual arts because I was always drawing, but when we emigrated to Australia from Holland when I was seven, I learnt the English language, and I fell in love with it.

Sarah Butler

I'm from Washington state - a pretty small town there called Puyallup. I was really into the arts there. I sang in choirs and did singing competitions. I also did a whole lot of theater; I did high school, and then I started doing some community theater. I decided that was the kind of thing I wanted to study in college.

Mae Jemison

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Henry Cavill

'Immortals' was very much a martial arts based training program - a lot of body weight stuff, very little in the way of actually lifting heavy weights, and a very, very low calorie diet.

Bonnie Raitt

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

Charles M. Blow

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

John Battelle

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.

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.

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.