Patronizing The Arts Quotes

#1. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

Jonathan Culler

#2. To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

Bobby Seale

#3. Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.

Cecil Roth

#4. I guess play piano, you know, because that's the thing I started doing when I was a little kid.

Harry Connick Jr.

#5. Moiraine: It seems Ryne was wrong as well as a Darkfriend. You were better than he.
Lan: He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.

Robert Jordan

#6. Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.

Jonny Greenwood

#7. It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It's a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.

Bruce Coville

#9. In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#10. Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Neil Peart

#11. You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

Jason Alexander

#12. The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

Carlos Castaneda

#13. Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

Lakshmi Mittal

#14. Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

Molly Crabapple

#15. Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: 'Gone with the Wind' from the viewpoint of the ruling class, 'The Grapes of Wrath' for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books' controversial themes.

Richard Corliss