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

• The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Light

• Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • People
  • Country
  • Education

• At the end of the day I see myself as a communicator. So any way that I can, any medium, any art form that I can use to communicate the truths of the Lord and scripture and my passion, then I'm going to do it. I don't know, I may do a spoken word piece one day, or I may turnaround and try to write a short story. I don't know, it just depends, but anything artistically that I can use I'll try to do it.

  

  Tedashii Lavoy Anderson
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Art

• I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.

  

  Mark Bradford
  • Why
  • Community
  • Present

• [On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • May
  • War
  • Spring

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

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Spring