Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes

If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Think
  • Friend

• The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Respect
  • White

• But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Music
  • Logic

• I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Morning
  • Paris
  • Appreciate

• I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Science

• People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Public

• Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • You
  • Plan

• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Day
  • Sympathy

• Toward the end of the Olympics, you get physically tired and drained. And no matter how much rest you have, your body is tired.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Rest
  • Body
  • End

• Siberia is a state of mind.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Mind
  • State
  • Siberia

• After the 'Grey Album,' everyone thought of me as the hip-hop guy, the remix maestro. I didn't know how to show them otherwise.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Thought

• Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • American
  • Religious
  • Struggle

• I see the root of the education crisis in the primary and secondary schools. Academia is doing a fairly good job. The root of the problem is the teachers. Some are great. But too many of them are not capable of being good role models. They can't control the classes. They lose too much time trying to create a learning environment.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • People
  • Reality
  • Rock

• Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Science
  • Technology

• Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People

• I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children

• I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Up
  • Singing

• Full on this casement shone the wintry moon,And threw warm gules on Madeline’s fair breast,As down she knelt for heaven’s grace and boon;Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest.

  

  John Keats
  • She
  • Together
  • Heaven

• This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative".

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Attitude

• I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because you can over-think something, and you've squeezed the life out of it. As opposed to work of art, it looks like a really great work of craftsmanship.

  

  Boots Riley
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• If I am not safe in Alton, I shall not be safe anywhere.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy