Set Out

Famous quotes containing the words set out and/or set:

    “I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”
    —Steve Martin (b. 1945)

    “One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said—the words one didn’t have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one’s dignity or survival.”
    —Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)

    “My curse on plays
    That have to be set up in fifty ways,
    On the day’s war with every knave and dolt,
    Theater business, management of men.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said—the words one didn’t have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one’s dignity or survival.”
    —Cynthia Ozick (b. 1928)