Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a commitment to Princeton more than to the arts program. The art program is what Princeton wants to do now, and I'm pleased to be a lead donor for that project.

It is very important that the UMKC community understands that Kansas City Rep is not leaving the UMKC campus, where we have been located for 42 years. We greatly value our home base at Spencer Theatre in the Performing Arts Center, and we recently invested in upgrading Spencer with new seats and other improvements. We plan to continue to produce a full season of plays at Spencer each year.

It's a great company, and the stock was pretty cheap until today. It's a leader in the arts and crafts industry, it's much bigger than its competition, has much higher profitability and consistently superior same-store sales growth.

It's a full play for those who enjoy martial arts movies,

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.

It's the citizens that make this city great. It's business, academia, arts and culture, the military that make this city one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work.

It is very typical for arts organizations around the state to ask for state aid. Arts organizations are always struggling to survive.

It's a logo and a hook for everything we plan to do under arts education. It's a catchy way to say arts are important in your life.

Tsui Hark

It may seem like the martial arts world has always been dominated by male characters. But that's only the physical difference. When you write in a female warrior in a male-dominated story, she takes on a kind of strength and mental integrity that do not distinguish her from her male counterparts. My idea is to create an impact when you see a woman fighter fighting with all the might of a man.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Martha Beck

Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned this in a karate dojo that had a strange tradition. Everyone there loved recounting failure stories, and after an evening of smacking one another, we'd sit and have a beer while the students swapped tales of martial arts disaster.

There are few things happening in our city right now that's more exciting than what's happening in the Arts District. We're getting this at a very low cost for our city. The backers they're putting their money where their mouth is.

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.

Joy Harjo

Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.

This being a Fine Arts Magnet School, we really focus on the arts. The students have been given intense art instruction since kindergarten; therefore, the work is unbelievable.

This is a chance to show the members some of what the arts encompass.