The notion that the public accepts or rejects anyt... -Tom Wolfe

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe Quotes to Explore

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, thin...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a f...

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and dest...

Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals ...

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one....

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion...

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical...

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination...

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed lo...

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. ...

Romantic Quotes to Explore

There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose....

Americans have always been excellent at making romantic comedies - but dramatically, we don't really try to do it....

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy ...

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each...

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories....

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives ...

When I was sixteen, I was an absolutely romantic guy. I fell in love every week. I mean, I was in love with everybody, but unfortunately, nobody was i...

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy....

I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic....

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love....