Manny Farber Quotes

Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

Manny Farber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1917 - August 18, 2008

Topics

LifeArtEveningAmericanSaturday

I still use my iPod all the time.

Joe Alwyn

TimeStillUseiPod

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

Anita Brookner

LifeEducationTeacherHappyThought

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.

Jeff Goldblum

AlaskaOriginalWereApparently

You got good and bad people everywhere.

Suge Knight

GoodPeopleBad PeopleYouBadGot

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life.

Robert Carlyle

LifeFatherMotherTimeMeYou

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

Dennis Brown

WaterSingingYouSometimesWhy

Under President Obama and Secretary Clinton, they're working hard to change the American dream into the European nightmare. They do celebrate more dependence on the government.

Bobby Jindal

ChangeAmerican DreamGovernmentHard

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

Bridget Riley

FreedomFocusAttentionSpiritMore

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.

Anselm Kiefer

ChildhoodMeBuildingsToysProject

My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.

Petina Gappah

FamilyManGrandfatherHimTwoHe

I think Evan Bayh directly should answer to the many Hoosiers I've spoken with who have questions about his ethical practices, or lack thereof, when he served in the United States Senate.

Todd Young

ThinkQuestionsEthicalAnswerWho

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

Marshall Herskovitz

WorldColdInternetFeelLaughYou

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