Jerry Saltz Quotes

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

Jerry Saltz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1951

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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

Meg Rosoff

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

John Henry Newman

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The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

Sidney Blumenthal

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Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

Tom Hodgkinson

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

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I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering her, decided it was easier to teach me to read stories to myself rather than to read them to me, as she had been doing.

Louis L'Amour

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When you take a break from something you love doing, you just feel like it's time to get back into it; you feel like you've been missing out on something.

Joseph Parker

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We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.

Jose Angel Gurria

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Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.

Douglas Kennedy

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It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

Christophe de Margerie

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I was born in our Chembur house in Mumbai, where we lived for five years after which we shifted to our Lokhandwala house.

Arjun Kapoor

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As for when to reform the yuan, there is no timetable yet.

Wu Yi

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