George C. Wolfe Quotes

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

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• My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Father
  • Amazing

• It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Time
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Jump
  • Nation
  • Oil

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Time
  • Age
  • Years

• I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Time
  • Think
  • Anxiety

• There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Better
  • Theory
  • Before

• When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Myself

• Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Humor
  • Take
  • Sense Of Humor

• I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Experience
  • Truth

• The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Men
  • Age
  • Man

• I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Decision

• You know, I have said before, and I will say again, that when we started on this journey, we did so with an abiding faith in the American people and their ability, our ability, to join together and change the country in ways that would make life better for our kids and our grandkids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page in the German and British academic tradition.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Single
  • German

• One can only blaspheme if one believes.

  

  W. H. Auden

• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Knowledge

• Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Education

• You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Sex

• The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Discipline

• The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Spring
  • Jump
  • Hurrah

• In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Control
  • Democracy

• Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Spring