Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

Lewis H. Lapham

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• Wealth
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• Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Never
  • Try
  • Research

• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Different
  • Change

• Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Travel
  • Exercise
  • Shoes

• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never

• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Present
  • Find
  • Partner

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Career
  • Enjoy
  • Over

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Politics
  • Realist
  • Optimist

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Things
  • Now
  • Bravery

• I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. A bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Music
  • Light
  • Created

• I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Up
  • Good
  • Art

• When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Firsts

• I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Wealth