Tom Lehrer Quotes

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.

Tom Lehrer

Quotes to Explore

I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- Long
- Art
- Remember
People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Victor Hugo
- People
- Will
- Strength
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Warren Bennis
- Life
- Mind
- Alone
I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.

Sally Mann
- Up
- Single
- Air
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

Tadao Ando
- Thinking
- Art
- Hand
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Gail Godwin
- People
- Experience
- You