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

• 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

• 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

• Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Book
  • Hand

• He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Business

• We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Up
  • Show
  • Inadvertently

• What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for The New Republic, I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing fire a journalist.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Writing
  • Journalist
  • Credibility

• Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

  

  Mary Daly
  • Time
  • Live
  • Women

• But science is not a democracy. Science is a brutal arena where ideas are picked apart, attacked, and tested to see if they hold up. Those that do hold up live to fight another day. Those that don’t are dragged off and discarded. To survive, a theory must be supported by vibrant, meaningful, replicable research.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Science
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

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

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy