Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"For the wise man, every day is a festival."
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Festivals
142 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!"
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Singer
"Frank Sinatra was very devoted to what it was he did. At the end of his life, what he had left - there have been accolades, mementos, festivals, superlatives, all that stuff. He's done movies, TV, done this, done that - what he had left was a love of his audience, and that kept him alive."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom."
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"Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs )."
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"Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!"
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"Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan."
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"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."
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"You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival."
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"I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!"
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"All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is."
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"I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms."
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"Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front."
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"He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival."
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"the time for prizes and competitions at art festivals is over. Competition is too closely tied to values that are alien to the arts."
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"Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of the festival, and was written about in a number of different reviews."
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"I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival."
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"I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities."
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"There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film."
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"Christmas Day is the festival of optimism."
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"One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed."
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"A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there."
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"We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it"
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"Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count -- / Festival of the Souls."
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