Quotes of: Country Keyword

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

Ad Reinhardt

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

David Dinkins

In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.

Janet Echelman

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

K'naan

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".

Aphorisms

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate.

Among the Nameless Stars

There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country,” Thenoclon said.

The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

I Speak of Ghana

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

India: An Illustrated History

In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is , something which is 'wholly mother'.

Journey Through Europe

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens

The Kitab-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Killosophy

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Rizal without the Overcoat

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

Spook Country

Perhaps it’s my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.

In a Sunburned Country

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

In a Sunburned Country

To endow clock time with numinous meaning <...> [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

The Savage & Beautiful Country

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

The Sense of an Ending

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.” Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up