Art Bell/events of 2010-12

Famous quotes containing the words art, bell and/or events:

    “A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)

    “I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.”
    —Jeffrey Archer (b. 1940)

    “When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)