Amanda Foreman Quotes

Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

Amanda Foreman

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• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Will
  • Agenda

• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Support

• You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Work
  • Business
  • Christian

• If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Smart

• Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Family

• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Help
  • Reality

• I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Want
  • Focus
  • Three

• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Comfort
  • Cheese
  • Soup

• On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Man
  • More
  • Touch

• I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

  

  Asafa Powell

• The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fashion

• Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Space

• Venice is all sea and sculpture.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Sea
  • Sculpture
  • Venice

• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Values
  • Faces
  • Intention

• And everywhere there were parents – parents mouse-like, parents aggressive, parents ostentatious, parents modest, parents subdued, parents animated: a growing rout lured together under the radiant porcelain sky – and for what? the headmaster wondered. It was improbable that they enjoyed themselves. It was improbable, even, that their offspring enjoyed themselves. And yet there was a glamour about it all which stirred the blood, and the headmaster himself, as he contemplated the spectacle, was not immune.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Parents
  • Blood
  • Enjoyed

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

  

  Amanda Foreman
  • Writers
  • Limits
  • Acceptable