Destroyable Arts Quotes & Sayings

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually played saxophone with a jazz band in middle school. So, any knowledge I had of jazz music was from playing alto-sax back then. — Miles Teller

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke

You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician. — Aldous Huxley

Satire is focused bitterness. — Leo Rosten

I love any kind of candy. — Kris Allen

There are Four of Us

I have turned aside from everything,
from the whole earthly store.
The spirit and guardian of this place
is an old tree-stump in water.

We are brief guests of the earth, as it were,
and life is a habit we put on.
On paths of air I seem to overhear
two friendly voices, talking in turn.

Did I say two?...There
by the east wall's tangle of raspberry,
is a branch of elder, dark and fresh.
Why! It's a letter from Marina.


November 1962 (in delirium) — Anna Akhmatova

We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having. — Jane Addams

Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church. — Jeffrey Toobin

Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back. — Nabil N. Jamal

...the phone rang.

When the phone rang so early in the morning, it oftentimes meant somebody was dead. An elderly person had passed in the night. A Friday night traffic fatality. The families of deceased would set about the task of notifying family and friends, and somewhere among the sad litany of phone calls, they dialed our number. — Ravi Howard

Life is too short to read inferior books. — James Bryce

We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself. — Dennis Lehane

When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen because I don't touch it afterwards. I never think about it, before being on the set. That's my thing. I love to be stuck. — Quentin Dupieux

He nodded, looking across the room at the sea of photographers and journalists. The microphones spread around him like birds waiting to be fed. — F.C. Malby

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now. — Taizan Maezumi