George Edward Woodberry Quotes

Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

George Edward Woodberry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1855 - January 2, 1930

Topics

VisionGreatArtSoulGeniusRace

As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.

John Burnside

NatureHappinessStoryDangerous

Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.

Maya Hawke

StrengthWomenMenSeeWomen Are

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

Tom Brokaw

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There is an odd assumption that compassion and care are finite or that critics can be everything to everyone - commenting on everything simply because they can. That's not what cultural criticism is.

Roxane Gay

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Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Michel Gondry

MusicMoneyMoreSystemPopEven

Tobey Maguire and I had a tough relationship - it was a tough working relationship. We butted heads, and ultimately, I lost the Los Angeles game because of differences with him. But then I moved to New York and built a bigger game, five times bigger, making more money, and that was pretty exciting.

Molly Bloom

RelationshipMoneyNew YorkGameNew

It's a different thing playing in a smaller venue where you can actually see people's faces and reactions. It's so much more intimate. You walk away with a more personal experience.

Jann Klose

ExperienceWalkPeopleYouPersonal

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Don Rickles

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My first signature was pretty long, but someone said, 'You need to shorten that up so much.'

Anthony Bennett

SomeoneLongYouSaidFirstNeed

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

Pierre Bourdieu

ScienceSociologyHiddenReveal

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Martin Freeman

MusicRelationshipCultureCreative

Our party and the Republic's government will go hand in hand with anyone who truly desires the country's reunification and the nation's peaceful prosperity and will make responsible and patient efforts to accomplish the historic cause of the fatherland's reunification.

Kim Jong-un

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