Philistia Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

Art belongs to everybody and nobody. Art belongs to all time and no time. Art belongs to those who create it and those who savour it. Art no more belongs to the People and the Party than it once belonged to the aristocracy and the patron. Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art's sake: it exists for people's sake. — Julian Barnes

The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it. — Northrop Frye

I have this thing that whenever the slightest embarrassment happens I go bright red. Not in the attractive English-rose way; in the way that someone might glance over and stay 'Oh, how strange. A tomato with the body of a girl. — Liz Bankes

TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message. — Jill McDonald

There is no gambling like politics. — Benjamin Disraeli

Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error. — George Holyoake

Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh. — George Burns

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton. — Leo Durocher

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra. — Phil Silvers

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. — Jacques Derrida

In May I received an anonymous Mother's Day card. This puzzled me. I would have noticed if I had ever had children, surely? — Neil Gaiman

Just breathe and believe. — Jodi Livon