Quotes of: Liberal-arts Keyword

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.

White Oleander

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Wyrd Sisters

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Watchmen

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

Lisa Loeb

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

David Lehman

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

The Deeper Meaning of Liff

A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.

Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

From Hell

It’s not the art, it’s the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it’s organic; it’s relational.

LaMar Boschman

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

Nassau William Senior

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Oliver Gaspirtz

Life is like a game of dominoes , who mastered the art of playing then he will win, and if it was losing, beaten back the card and repeat the game

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When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

Oscar Wilde

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

Oscar Wilde

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

Plato

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Pablo Picasso

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Paul Verhoeven

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

Roberto Benigni La Vita è Bella

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Ralph Waldo Emerson