Careers In The Arts Quotes & Sayings

What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose. — Homer

There will be nothing to say something terrible has happened, but they will know it all the same. Nothing will be found. Not a trace of the girl in the midnight dress. — Karen Foxlee

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear. — David Crosby

In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables. — Frederick Lenz

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul. — Russell Kirk

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure. — Joshua Waitzkin

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. — Viktor E. Frankl

The most remarkable thing about a man's dreams is that they will all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it. And a peculiarity of man's behaviour is that he is not in the least surprised when his dreams come true; it is as if he expected nothing else. The goal to be reached and the determination to reach it are brother and sister, and slumber in the same heart. — Halldor Laxness

What do we want most for our children? What's most important in the grand scheme of things? We want them to grow up and be happy. — Adele Devine

Get the hell out of my way! Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator. — Ayn Rand

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality. — Rachel Cusk

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome — Claudia Roden

I began my career in the arts as a model, before adding my hats as an actress, a photographer, a journalist and now, filmmaker. I've seen and experienced it all. — Garth Kravits

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. — Virginia Woolf

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents. — Jason Sudeikis

Medicare is a monopoly: a central-planning bureaucracy grafted onto American health care. It exercises a stranglehold on the health care of all Americans over 65, and on the medical practices of almost all physicians. Medicare decides what is legitimate and what is not: which prices may be charged and which services may be rendered. — Virginia Postrel

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence. — Robert Forster