Traditional Quotes

• The traditional textbook will always have a place on the shelf just as it has for hundreds of years. This product is about choice for students, providing them a less expensive price.

  

  Jeff Cohen
  • Place
  • Traditional
  • Textbook

• As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Art
  • Modern
  • Concerned

• This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.

  

  William Appleman Williams
  • Fighting
  • Politician
  • Argument

• The good NCO has never been short in confidence, either to perform the mission or to inform the superior that he or she was interfering with traditional NCO business.

  

  William G. Bainbridge
  • Missions
  • Interfere
  • Superiors

• The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Thinking
  • Stock
  • Stock Market

• I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Experiment

• I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Traditional
  • Bluegrass

• I don't have one specific tattooing specialty. I enjoy doing full-color new school, portraits, neo-traditional, realistic, black and gray, ultra detailed art, etc... but always custom.

  

  William Webb
  • Realistic
  • Portraits
  • Customs

• People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

  

  Clive Rowe
  • People
  • Disregard
  • Pantomimes

• Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

  

  Stuart Chase
  • World
  • Atoms
  • Nationalism

• It was a very traditional 19th-century house; very old and half the size

  

  Claire Williams
  • House
  • Old
  • Size

• The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

  

  William Taylor
  • Hatred
  • Minorities
  • Saddam

• I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Traditional
  • Sucker

• The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Wrong
  • Traditional
  • Markers

• It's a catchy name. We didn't want to call ourselves anything too traditional. If we had called ourselves the something-or-others we would have been just another group in the crowd.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Name
  • Crowd
  • Traditional

• You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Musician
  • Taste
  • Experimenting

• I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.

  

  Laura Pausini
  • Artist
  • Personality
  • Beens

• You know, 'The Golden Girls' was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

  

  Mitchell Hurwitz
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Training

• Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.

  

  Edward Boches
  • Traditional
  • Agencies
  • Unlearn

• I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Way
  • Exercise
  • Records

• Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.

  

  Reem Acra
  • Time
  • Modern
  • Dresses

• Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

  

  David Holmgren
  • Energy
  • Design
  • Information

• The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.

  

  Reem Acra
  • Girls
  • Colors
  • Ivory

• The problem now is that young people, young indigenous people, are not so interested in preserving traditional knowledge. So for them, seeing that it was important for us and for the outside world, this traditional knowledge, it was a big deal to them.

  

  Ciro Guerra
  • Knowledge
  • Problem
  • Young People

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