Stanley Crouch Quotes

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

Stanley Crouch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1945

Topics

LearningWorldAestheticYouFall

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

John Fusco

PeopleMeConnectionBackAlways

The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.

John Quelch

BusinessSchoolWarmYouBodyNeed

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

Shirley MacLaine

LiveSpaceFlowersMoonEnoughLong

The glib, facile, simplistic, and prefabricated language by which we as consumers are constantly surrounded is a language that flatters us, that urges us to indulge ourselves, to get away from it all, to be unique by opting in, talking back, liking us on Facebook, leaving a review, sharing, retweeting, etc.

Tracy K. Smith

LanguageTalkingUniqueBackLeaving

When things get better, there's a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others.

Rupi Kaur

BetterSwingOthersThingsPendulum

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

Louis C. K.

PeopleYouKnowTrueDeadOut

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Judy Blume

BestYouWantWriteInsideCome

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

Jean de la Bruyere

FriendshipLoveTimeStrongerWeaker

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

Debra Winger

MoneyPeopleWorldSome PeopleStar

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

Bonnie Tyler

MeReadingFeelOldMenuAnything

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

Bob Dole

RelationshipMeThoughtHelpDone

When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That's what struck me - not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place.

Thomas Heatherwick

NatureMeBridgePowerfulDownJust

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