Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Maarten Troost

There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.

James Allen

As we develop a regional economic-development strategy for Erie and Niagara counties, we have identified tourism as one of our growth clusters. The arts and culture industry needs to be viewed as an economic-development sector.

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.

Chris Snyder

The NCAA just brings that instant name recognition and credibility to this part of the world. It will have a tremendous impact. We are a private liberal arts college playing at the Division II level. We created our own little niche in the higher-education market.

Arts programs have become a lot more savvy about packaging their opportunities. They've taken a cue from sports and that's been the driver.

Arts and culture do not really have a geopolitical boundary. So it is probably one of the best ways of cultivating understanding between people.

Arts and culture are an industry, and I think that it serves a dual purpose while we look at quality of life, it's also an economic driver. Hopefully at the end, both private and public sectors will see that investment in the creative infrastructure isn't just something that feels good but also has a direct return to their cities and businesses.

Arts and culture are an industry, and I think that it serves a dual purpose ù while we look at quality of life, it's also an economic driver. Hopefully at the end, both private and public sectors will see that investment in the creative infrastructure isn't just something that feels good but also has a direct return to their cities and businesses.

Arts and Crafts was never there to prevent industrial growth. It was there to tailor it.

A performing arts center will not just benefit the Macomb area. A facility like this will be an asset to the entire region.

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

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 not intended to be a comprehensive study of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It's a look at how people in other countries took the Arts and Crafts ideas that were developed in the (United Kingdom) and made them their own.

Bartlett Sher

For a town this size, the level of the arts it supports is extraordinary.

For $100 million, give or take a million, this is an outstanding arts center.

The FAME teachers are by far the most talented individuals that I have ever worked with. Their enthusiasm, expertise, and love of their craft have been passed on to the students and teachers at Dent Middle School. They are energized knowing that the arts are a priority at our school.

I invite you and your friends to ride with us to celebrate together in Concord with other arts enthusiasts and representatives from the city.

On a whole, though, the Film Society seeks to get a range of both foreign, independent, and as of last semester, classic films to screen at the Putnam Arts Lecture Hall on campus.

Not many people in the arts get this scholarship so I feel extremely blessed to have been given this opportunity.

not just a community but a set of communities who understand the richness and diversity of their arts and cultural offerings and the potential impact those have - not just on the quality of life but on the economy...

Not only was he our first professional concert master, but in making things happen he donated a lot of money in his lifetime to worthy causes and helped arts and culture in our community.

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 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.

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.

Brian Moynihan

The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

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

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Jay Kay

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We will also have a school of dance, ... That will be part of our performing arts department and they will teach ballet, tap and Tiger tumbling. That will be tumbling gymnastics.

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.