Top 23 Quotes About The National Endowment For The Arts
#1. I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'
Johnny Gimble
#2. Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
Norm Dicks
#3. I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award. I couldn't buy a light bulb. Almost more than the money, the awards are important because they show that someone believes in you.
Sandra Cisneros
#4. When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously) equal to my Crow, which would be - I knew at once - Rat.
Norman Lock
#5. What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something along the lines of 'eliminating taxpayer funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.' But they can't say that, or people would realize they're crazy.
Ann Coulter
#6. There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.
Marsha Norman
#7. As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
Gary Bauer
#8. What a thrill it is to have my writing recognized by an institution as admirable and vital as the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dean Bakopoulos
#9. This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
Norm Dicks
#10. I think quotes are very dangerous things.
Kate Bush
#11. We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.
Sarah Palin
#12. I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.
William Inge
#13. In just three years, Kickstarter surpassed the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts as the largest backer of arts projects in the United States.9
Daniel H. Pink
#14. It's crazy to think that people can appreciate your presence in their lives not because of what you've accomplished or what they've gotten out of knowing you, but just because you're present.
Natalie Bina
#15. Tonight the man in the moon looks as though he's winking, or smirking: a moon with secrets.
Lauren Oliver
#16. Art should be for sale. The artist should not.
A.E. Samaan
#18. Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.
Clare Boothe Luce
#19. I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
Gary Kemp
#20. Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.
Nat Hentoff
#21. I'm quite curvy and I just try and exercise whenever I can. I don't do anything hardcore as I'm just not that dedicated.
Leona Lewis
#22. That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done.
David Selby
#23. The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
Conway Twitty
