Shows Quotes - Page 38

• People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

  Arne Glimcher

  Beautiful, Art, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

  Willard Wigan

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "The Tiny World of Willard Wigan, Nano Sculptor". Interview with Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 07, 2007.

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• Well, to have some teams come at you like Montreal did, it’s definitely flattering, and I think it was good for me to also set a precedent for players like me and how important we can be to teams. That was something I was happy to do as well, you know? Sometimes players like me are maybe overlooked or not looked at as an important piece to the puzzle, but it was something I wanted to prove and wanted to show.

  Brandon Prust

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.

  Deborah Cox

  Powerful, Theatre, Clubs

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• I cannot believe that any religion has been revealed to Man by God. Because a revealed religion would be perfect but no known religion is perfect; and because history and science show us that known religions have not been revealed but have been evolved from other traditions.

  Robert Blatchford

  Believe, Men, Perfect

  Robert Blatchford (1917). “God and My Neighbour”

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• Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.

  Stephen Potter

  Book, Should Have, Might

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• But this is called show business, not show family.

  Alice Barrett

  Show Business

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• I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda
  and how much money can Alan Alda have.

  Alice Barrett

  Broadway, Broadway Shows

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• Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Men, Thinking, Fire

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• I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

  Phoebe Cary

  Flower, Purple, Rose

  Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You’ve got to show up and own it. If this is a man’s world, who cares? I’m still really glad to be a girl in it.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Girl, Taken, Men

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.21, Penguin

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• Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.

  Mark Goddard

  Space, Television, World

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• What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Nasty, Realizing, Range

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• Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Government, Data, Support

  Arthur C. Brooks (2011). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.13, Basic Books

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• The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Data, Income, Belief

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them.

  Kristin Davis

  Successful, Choices, Watches

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• But you know, our show is our show, and it's not for everybody.

  Kristin Davis

  Knows

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

  Henry R. Luce

  Missions

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• I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

  Questlove

  Boys, Saws, Unwind

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• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  Questlove

  New York, Secret, Tweet

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• I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.

  Questlove

  Thinking, Roots, Tonight

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• The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

  Justin Sane

  Warfare, Way, Ifs

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• I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.

  Tom DeLonge

  Song, Sex, Moving

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• I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

  Freddy Fender

  Dream

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• You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.

  Nina Hagen

  Believe, Unique, Nina

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