Thomas Hoving Quotes

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

Thomas Hoving

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 15, 1931 - December 10, 2009

Topics

GreatArtExcitementGreat ArtShown

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Jitin Prasada

WorkStrengthAtmosphereOnlyVoters

The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

EverythingWordWrittenWritten Word

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

Mel Torme

MoneyTalkingYearYouTellGoing

Our fathers founded the first secular government that was ever founded in this world. Recollect that. The first secular government - the first government that said every church has exactly the same rights and no more; every religion has the same rights, and no more.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Steve Earle

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My first love was basketball.

Stan Smith

LoveBasketballFirstFirst Love

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school.

Mika

SchoolMeToughOutPrettyGot

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.

Mona Eltahawy

LightGreenGameYouFairOne Thing

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

Moby

PeopleDeepTryingYouDownKnow

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

TruthMemoryNailsForceSharpLike

Our business has changed so much. Do people even want albums, or do they just buy singles now? You sort of feel like you're the last guy manufacturing VCRs... but I really like albums, and so I like doing them. I'll be the last one making them, even when no one's buying them.

Brad Paisley

BusinessPeopleFeelDoingYouWant

To be 'squeezed' is to be bound by a very American psychological and socio-economic predicament. Being squeezed involves one's finances, one's social status, and one's self-image.

Alissa Quart

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