Allan Bloom Quotes

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Allan Bloom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulGreatPlayLivingIgnorant

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

Robert Herjavec

GreatCreateEntrepreneurshipAbout

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

John Sandford

CharacterPeopleStartSayingYou

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

Subcomandante Marcos

WomenManEndPossibilitiesSheFew

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Steven Tyler

GreatMeSecretOverMelodyRiffs

I can remember somebody once saying to me that they thought my life must be less real than these other people that they were writing about, which I found a very peculiar thing 'cos all our lives are equally real, and it's just a matter of depicting them and talking about them.

Ronald Frame

LifePeopleMeWritingSayingI Can

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

Michael Pitt

ScaredGiveInputVeryDirectors

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

Lois Lowry

PeopleTurnOutThingsMostReasons

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?

Juan Williams

HopeMoneyNew YorkPeopleThink

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.

Jon Porter

WorkCollegeLawMedicineDebt

I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world.

Christian Slater

TodayProgressDetailWorldBetter

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

Chris Van Allsburg

LifeMeBelieveMy LifeMagicWill

I know how music makes me feel; I know how it affects my life.

Cole Swindell

LifeMusicMeFeelMy LifeKnow

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