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#arts

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #arts




I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.


Dorothy Fields


#far #field #great #i #i do

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.


Charles Caleb Colton


#bitterest #closet #courage #dare #enemy

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.


Hannah Cowley


#genius #good #make #men #parts

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.


Ari Fleischer


#because #close #delicate #down #longer

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.


Michael Cunningham


#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.


Nick Clegg


#been #bound #broken #cannot #choose

Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.


Nicolaus Copernicus


#although #art #arts #away #better

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.


Felicia Hemans


#fortitude #hearts #hoping #silent #suffering

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.


Helena Bonham Carter


#change things #club #costume #done #drama

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.


Giacomo Casanova


#being #character #constituent #corrected #dependent






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