All Quotes

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
‐‐ Karen Kain

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
‐‐ Ethel Barrymore

The arts are part of the fiber of American society and should get Federal support.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
‐‐ Michael Fassbender

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
‐‐ Richard Eyre

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
‐‐ Rudolf Arnheim

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
‐‐ Gavin Newsom

The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.
‐‐ Agnes Gund

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
‐‐ Mark Helprin

The arts don't exist in isolation.
‐‐ David Byrne

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.
‐‐ Alfred Stieglitz

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?
‐‐ John Crowe Ransom

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

The arts have always been in and around my life.
‐‐ Grace Gummer

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
‐‐ Gordon Gee

The arts saved my life.
‐‐ Michael K. Williams

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.
‐‐ Ken Robinson

The arts tend to be more liberal. There tends to be more social relevance in the arts.
‐‐ Peter Guber

The asbestos problem impacts everyone.
‐‐ John Engler

The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
‐‐ Tadashi Yanai

The Asian culture has to be a part of what we see on TV and in movies.
‐‐ Elodie Yung

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
‐‐ Gary Miller

The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
‐‐ Fredrik Bajer

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.
‐‐ Alden Ehrenreich

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
‐‐ Bernadine Dohrn

The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.
‐‐ Jeffrey Toobin

'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in Iraq, and there is no doubt about where it is going and what kind of groundwork is being laid.
‐‐ George Packer

The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
‐‐ Millicent Fawcett

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
‐‐ Harry Hay

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
‐‐ Herbert Read

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
‐‐ David Byrne

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
‐‐ Stephen Bayley

The assumption should be that we will not appear in print or the blogosphere. Having dinner should not be fodder for Facebook. And this is just as true for 'public personalities' as it is for the average person. After all, even people in the public eye have a right to a private life.
‐‐ Ezekiel Emanuel

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.
‐‐ David Malpass

The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.
‐‐ Ravi Zacharias

The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
‐‐ John Aubrey

The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women.
‐‐ Sally Ride