Nat Hentoff Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
-
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
-
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
-
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
-
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
-
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
-
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
-
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
-
The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
-
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
-
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
-
I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
-
Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
-
It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers -
The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
-
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
-
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
-
It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
-
High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
-
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
-
I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
-
I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.
-
The people I admire are those who keep on producing and working and going on.