Terry Teachout Quotes

To me, an intellectual is a person who is primarily interested in ideas. What I am is an aesthete, a person who is primarily interested in beauty. That's why I write about art.

Terry Teachout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 6, 1956

Topics

BeautyArtI AmMeIdeasPerson

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

Jennifer Beals

CharacterYourselfThinkYouPlay

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

Melissa Bean

TimeStressProudLostAcceptBuilt

I quickly came to realize that in the Middle East, God is God, and in the West, the sponsor is God - or, as I like to say, Tide detergent is God.

Maz Jobrani

GodTideSayRealizeWestMiddle

There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.

John James Audubon

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I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Stephen Fry

HomeMyselfWritingThinkSmoking

We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the one shot in Vucciria Sicilian historical market We enjoyed showing the faces and the characters that crowd that beautiful market every day.

Stefano Gabbana

BeautifulDayPeopleBondFeel

My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school.

Storm Reid

LoveExperienceSchoolMeYearGo

While we always strive to reach 218 with Republican votes, sometimes that is not possible with divided government, and the story of a bill that passed with 150 Republican votes is much more positive and assertive than the story of a bill that passes with 79 Republican votes.

Steve Scalise

PositiveGovernmentStoryReachMore

I don't wear jeans.

Christine Ebersole

JeansWear

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

Chuck Berry

MusicSimpleLookDownSymbolsSit

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Bobby Sherman

MusicMeArtistHardWouldLover

What's sometimes called the 'browning' of the American Catholic church is very much on the minds of many U.S. bishops - and the pope. Unlike evangelicals who have stayed strong in their support of President Trump, the USCCB knows that it cannot afford to lose their Hispanic and African American population because of a weak stance on racism.

Anthea Butler

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