Mandarinism Quotes & Sayings

Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they're oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before. — Marco Rubio

Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords. — James Fenton

A guy with no will to live isn't worth killing. — Yukako Kabei

Those in the know ain't telling me or you. — Tim Heaton

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back. — Celine Dion

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn't really know what all that meant. I didn't know. — Dolly Parton

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors. — Alia Shawkat

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music. — Robert Bly

True love doesn't demand..It only loves. — Toba Beta

Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood and the precious cultural possessions that the living community inherits or should inherit. — Wendell Berry

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong. — Ron Eglash

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work. — Walter Benjamin

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things. — John Keats

A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously. — Philip Slater

Eddie waited 'til he finished high school, he went to Hollywood, got a tattoo. — Tom Petty

I often thought the most unfair thing about having Moebius wasn't Moebius at all, but other people's inability to define me by anything else. — David Arnold