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Letter "T" » The academy
«I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.»
Author: Giorgos Seferis
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, Greece, manifest, solidarity, Swedish, The academy, wished
«I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.»
Author: Harold Bloom
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, dominated by, early on, human voice, knaves, literary, status, The academy
«Hollywood - that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting»
Author: Shirley Knight
(Actress)
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, Academy Awards, awards, Charlton, Charlton Heston, Heston, The academy
«At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents»
Author: Bob Hope
(Actor, Comedian)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, Academy Awards, actresses, agents, award, besides, dinners, Hollywood, press agent, The academy
«Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, built, inquisition, inquisitions, superstition, The academy, the Inquisition
«Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
academies, Academy A, at present, conception, discoveries, Europe, experiment, furnished, hence, instruments, rapid, rapids, sorry, The academy
«Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Football
| Keywords:
academe, academies, academy, Academy A, An Ancient, modern philosophy, Modern School, n a, The academy
«At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
boarded, booked, Dead language, furnished, furnished with, hall, instructed, necessaries, pocket money, The academy
«Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Business,
Experience,
Principles
| Keywords:
business community, Establishing, The academy, tic, tics
«Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
academies, Academy A, listens, The academy, The Streets
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