Allan Bloom Quotes

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Allan Bloom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1930 - October 7, 1992

Topics

SuccessChildrenParentingWiseLost

I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.

Joanna Lumley

JourneyThinkFeathersNiceMore

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Anna Katharine Green

BeautyPathYouDutySpiritKissed

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

Robert Indiana

MindNumbersOldAlwaysYearsLived

Music has the ability to comfort people.

Matthew Morrison

MusicPeopleComfortAbility

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

Michael Franti

OpportunityMeBelieveSomeoneHelp

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Tom Hanks

GoodTodayDayGood DayI AmPeople

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

Roger Moore

EnjoyActorBeingOverpaidHighly

I think a part of me romantically thinks it would be amazing to learn to dance or ice skate, but in reality, I don't think it would be beneficial to my career.

Russell Tovey

DanceAmazingMeThinkRealityIce

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

MeBlameMoviesUnderstandWhatever

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Christopher Walken

GreatTalkingRememberYouSaidHim

If China were to explode, I'd want to be there in a flash. If there's a big story, I want to be there.

Bob Simon

StoryWantChinaBigFlashWere

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?

Peter Jackson

Black-And-WhiteNowMoviesSilent

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