Eric Ludy Quotes

We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.

Eric Ludy

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• Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Place
  • Start
  • Questions

• An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Game
  • Artist

• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Book
  • Author
  • Choose

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Want
  • Morning
  • Him

• Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Anything
  • Radio
  • Punk

• I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Family
  • Giving

• When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Like
  • Grow Up

• The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Painting

• I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• Rihanna, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj - we may not win, but we would have a lot of fun [in 4x400m relay team].

  

  Usain Bolt
  • May
  • Fun
  • Team

• Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • History
  • Humanity

• You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Games

• Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • God
  • Children
  • Prayer

• Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Human
  • Unique
  • Become

• All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Eye
  • Streams
  • Needles

• Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • State
  • Defend
  • Majesty

• I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up, like I did, in front of 100 million people since the age of 5, you're automatically different.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Weird
  • Bizarre

• As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.

  

  Nick Tosches
  • Courage
  • Option
  • Communicate

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Education
  • Forgotten
  • Been

• The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Character
  • Together

• We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • Forgotten
  • Hungry
  • Relevant