Northrop Frye Quotes

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

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• Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Up
  • Important
  • School

• I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Back

• When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'

  

  Dana Perino
  • Money
  • You
  • United States

• The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fun
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• Legal and economic equality are absolutely necessary remedies for the Fall, and protection against cruelty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fall
  • Equality

• For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Life
  • World

• I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • True
  • Friend
  • Car

• What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Believe
  • Writing

• I was always the serious kid.

  

  Margarita Levieva
  • Serious

• One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

  

  Ben Bass
  • Character

• Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Future
  • Political
  • Party

• One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

  

  Andrea Hirata
  • People
  • Trying

• Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

  

  Jean Genet
  • World
  • Live
  • Universe

• When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Up
  • Future
  • Growing

• I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things. And that felt like a muscle I hadn't exercised in a really long time.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• The importance of teachers in American education has never been a question, but recent research has established beyond doubt that the most important element of student achievement is the quality of the teacher. At the Corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the Corporation is committed to. We are pleased to join forces with the Annenberg Foundation in pursuit of this goal.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Important

• It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • Music
  • Intellectual

• I've never had a manager, and I've had various agents, and, fortunately or unfortunately, I've been blessed.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Blessed
  • Manager
  • Unfortunately

• I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Mother
  • Sister

• People now have their own particular religion - a denomination of one. I suppose it's a part of the new age phenomenon, but it's much wider than that. On the whole, I would say that is healthy. But I think it was always there, secretly.

  

  Ninian Smart
  • Religion
  • Phenomenon
  • Denomination

• We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Preparation
  • Educational
  • Notion