Quotes About Chautauqua

#1. I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

Ryan Reynolds

#2. A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

Harry Browne

#3. Humorists are precisely the kinds of guys who can cut through the orgy of petty indignation that the aging baby boomers are imposing on this great country.

David Brin

#4. The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where platitudes and slogans can be set aside and be replaced by thoughtfulness and introspection.

Eliot Spitzer

#5. The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different.

Tony Gilroy

#6. You can't have all you want remaining who you currently are.

Robin Sharma

#7. Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

E.B. White

#8. When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.

Nikita Khrushchev

#10. You can't lead from the crowd.

Margaret Thatcher

#11. Rachel shook her head, as if casting out the memories from her mind. Something he'd been unable to do in one hundred and ninety-eight years. Memories, painful and stark, failed to retreat, instead they clung to him like a Rottweiler to a bone.

D.A. Rhine

#12. Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell them, and never inform the author/their agent/their publisher just trousering the money. I think we can agree that this was piracy?

Charles Stross