Arthur Lismer Quotes

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

Arthur Lismer

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• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Last

• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light

• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • People
  • Movie
  • Stupid

• I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Cool
  • Point
  • Musical

• I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Learning
  • Tea

• I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Amazing
  • Voice
  • Act

• I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Bad
  • Me
  • First

• A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

  

  Sam Abell
  • World
  • Work
  • Mad

• Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Important
  • Change
  • Progress

• None of the parties want this conflict to go on.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Want
  • Conflict
  • Go

• One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Education
  • Goals

• Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Men
  • Women
  • Commitment

• The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Moments
  • Spiritual

• Scilicet et fluvius qui visus maximus ei, Qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit; et ingens Arbor, homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni Maxima quae vidit quisque, haec ingentia fingit.

  

  Lucretius

• images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Children

• The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • Technology

• I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • High
  • Song
  • Forever

• First of all, what made him Duke in "Zero Year" captivating is this sense of somebody who wants to save the city regardless of whether Batman wants to or not, but has been inspired by Batman. He's always been - not combative with Batman or anything - but I think he has a sense that what Robin is and what heroism is in Gotham is something that's inspired by Batman and sort of separate from Batman.

  

  Scott Snyder
  • Thinking
  • Inspired
  • Cities

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

  

  Elijah Cummings
  • School
  • High

• Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

  

  Chet Baker
  • Work
  • Art
  • Smart

• It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

  

  Arthur Lismer
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Deeds