Instrumentalism John Quotes & Sayings

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does. — Gerald M. Weinberg

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender. — Bing Crosby

Grace and Carol look at each other's scrapbook pages and say, "Oh, yours is so good. Mine's no good. Mine's awful." They say this every time we play the scrapbook game. Their voices are wheedling and false; I can tell they don't mean it, each one thinks her own lady on her own page is good. But it's the thing you have to say, so I begin to say it too. — Margaret Atwood

Jowell fell back on the same justification for funding the arts that the first chairman of the Arts Council, John Maynard Keynes, had deployed in 1945. Art was something produced by people with special skills, who set their own standards of excellence; they needed to be supported to do this, and the audience needed to be encouraged to appreciate this excellence, by being given subsidised access to it. And for all of Jowell's attempts to transcend instrumentalism, the purpose of culture continued to be to help the government 'to transform our society into a place of justice, talent and ambition where individuals can fulfil their true potential'.22 — Robert Hewison

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. — Emanuel Ax

Soldiers don't complain ... I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's a group I've been close to, since childhood. We spend a lot of time together.'. — Gwyneth Paltrow

During the 1970s (and particularly because of Vietnam), it slowly became standard for absolutely everyone to go to college, particularly if they had no desire to get a real job. One of the results was a massive population of film school students, most of whom became waiters and valets in the 1980s. Since the vast majority of these Kubrick wannabes couldn't crack the motion picture industry, they saw opportunities to make minimovies in the world of rock 'n' roll. — Chuck Klosterman