Roberta Smith Quotes

#1. My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.

Ivanka Trump

#2. I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

Patricia Highsmith

#3. But perhaps revelation often comes when you're not looking for it, resolution when you don't realize you need it.

Robert Goddard

#4. Because ENOUGH is TOO MUCH!
And look around ... can you blame us?!

Morrissey

#5. I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.

Roberta Smith

#6. Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

George Sandys

#7. You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.

Roberta Smith

#8. I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is 'Characters Welcome' and not 'Procedurals Welcome.'

Tim DeKay

#9. I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#10. Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.

Thomas Friedman

#11. A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#13. What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

Douglass North

#14. The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Roberta Smith

#15. A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

Roberta Smith

#16. People are always waiting to be discovered.

Jonathan Carroll

#17. Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.

Roberta Smith

#18. The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

Denis Leary

#20. Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.

Roberta Smith