Boosterism Quotes

#1. Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Junot Diaz

#2. Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.

Camille Paglia

#3. I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

Bailey White

#4. Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

Tristan Tzara

#5. There's only so long you can live in a fantasy world before the reality comes along to sharply put you back in your place.

Giovanna Fletcher

#6. If Shakespeare had been in pro basketball, he never would have had time to write his soliloquies. He would have always been on a plane between Phoenix and Kansas City.

Paul Westhead

#7. All this freedom, but I still feel like I'm locked up.

Piper Kerman

#8. Normally, I admire your kick-in-the-face style, Lieutenant. But try that with this, and the two of us will be making love in heaven tonight."
"Heaven wouldn't have either of us

J.D. Robb

#9. How will I accomplish such a thing?" he said, and her
lashes fluttered closed as his bottom lip scraped gently up
the curve of her chin. "I'll be everywhere you are. Your very
shadow.

Charlotte Featherstone

#10. Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you.

Patrick Ness

#11. We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Mark Twain

#12. Maybe, he pondered as he ascended the stairs, that's my problem with Kathy. I can't remember our combined past: can't recall the days when we voluntarily lived with each other ... now it's become an involuntary arrangement, derived God knows how from the past.

Philip K. Dick

#13. To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

#14. His heart wept with joy on the inside and his throat dislodged the lump that had been there for days, just long enough for him to whisper back, "I love you too, Judge. I do." Judge

A.E. Via

#15. I'm terrified of getting what I'm not deserving of, feeling that I've got something for nothing ... at the expense of brilliant starving writers all over the world. But I have to hope these people who are helping me have integrity.

Nick McDonell

#16. yellow fingers because he smoked a lot. And he danced

Carole Matthews

#17. It is better to die in the field of honour than to live in the chains of slavery;

Matthew Henry