Robert Hilburn Quotes

In the role of Ziggy Stardust, Bowie seemed in 1972 like a strange alien creature, not so much coming from another planet as from a future age. His purpose: to warn us about a dangerous society where values were to be turned inside out.

Robert Hilburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1939

Topics

FutureAgePurposeSocietyValues

There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all.

Max von Sydow

ChildrenBelieveProblemWantWho

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

John Maeda

TodayScienceArtChallengeDesign

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

Robert Smith

WorkMusicFoolValueMePlan

People who have had a stroke and are recovering from it love being read to... especially by someone who is a good reader - it does help them to get better.

Ruth Rendell

LoveGoodPeopleBetterHelpGet

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Judith Light

CommunityTryingGayTrappedOut

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Jonathan Winters

DisciplineToughRebelGuyWho

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

Joni Eareckson Tada

SchoolSocietyHigh SchoolHonor

The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.

Douglas Coupland

AliveUniversalStillUrgeNear

I'm thankful because all the hard work and sacrifices were worth it in the end.

WizKid

WorkHard WorkThankfulEndWorth

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

Penn Jillette

PeopleYouKnowOutFreakTell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Maria Mitchell

I AmMeTryingSummerAlwaysJust

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Martin Heidegger

ThinkingThoughtKnowReasonBegins

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