Clive Bell Quotes

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Clive Bell

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• Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

  

  Said Musa
  • Work
  • English
  • Independent

• Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Service

• I've never played a character that would sing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Character
  • Never
  • Sing

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Try
  • Kitchen

• My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Reflection

• When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of business, because I don't want them to spend as much time to get their voice as I did.

  

  Pat Mitchell
  • Time
  • Women
  • Business

• Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Son

• To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Society

• To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Future
  • Free

• It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Music
  • Girl

• Marikana is a huge wake-up call.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Up

• Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Book
  • Animal
  • Dog

• The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time.

  

  Philip Emeagwali
  • Time
  • Great
  • Connection

• These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Live
  • Dangerous
  • Artists

• The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.

  

  Emil Kraepelin
  • Patients
  • Burned
  • Fixed

• At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

  

  Donald T. Regan
  • People
  • Interesting

• The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her 'beauty.' Her reproductive value, as the 'aesthetic' value of her face and body today, 'came to be seen as a sacred trust, one that she must constantly guard in the interest of her race.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • She
  • Today
  • Value

• I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

  

  Clive Bell
  • Aesthetic