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Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful. -- Steven A. Cohen
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were. -- Edward R. Murrow
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -- Jacques Barzun
That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form. -- Ryan Kwanten
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. -- James Wolcott
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema. -- Quentin Tarantino
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood. -- Frank Shorter
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. -- Harvey Mackay
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. -- Brian De Palma
For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait. -- Becca Tobin
Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction. -- Corey Taylor
When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals. -- Jeff Ross
I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it. -- Chrisette Michele
I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it. -- Jazmine Sullivan
conversation is now pretty well a lost art. -- Dorothy Nevill
We have lost the art of sharing and caring. -- Hun Sen
I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. -- Tim Gunn
It is not easy to recover an art when once lost. -- Oliver Goldsmith
It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit. -- Brian Froud
A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up. -- Neil Genzlinger
Now defined as art, the totem has lost cult, taboo, and custom. -- Mason Cooley
People who want to be amused have lost the art of living. -- Holbrook Jackson
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends. -- Silas Weir Mitchell
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. -- William Howard Adams
O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason ! -- William Shakespeare
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. -- Evan Esar
To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art. -- Gerhard Richter
The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art -- Alan Villiers
We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech. -- Gordon Brown
O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won? -- John Wolcot
Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time. -- Junot Diaz
Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature. -- Louis Pasteur
I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important. -- Nancy Crow
Without Unceasing Practice nothing can be done. Practice is Art. If you leave off you are lost. -- William Blake
Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend. -- Rabindranath Tagore
In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em. -- Will Rogers
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years -- Isadora Duncan
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally. -- Angelus Silesius
Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction. -- Rick Bass
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. -- Vincent Van Gogh
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics. -- William Butler Yeats
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. -- Angelus Silesius
Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time. -- Michael Redd
Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared. -- Stephen Kinzer
They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do -- Buster Keaton
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. -- Andre Gide
They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do. -- Buster Keaton
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. -- Bruno Munari
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master. -- Elizabeth Bishop
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. -- Elizabeth McGovern
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov. -- George Steiner
The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it. -- Baz Luhrmann
In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care. -- Bernard Lown
While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost. -- Thomas Jefferson
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce. -- John Gardner
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. -- Elizabeth Bishop
if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty. -- Stephen King
Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid. -- Alice Dunbar Nelson
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch. -- Anne Enright
Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary. -- Henry Johnson Jr
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation. -- Stephen Neill
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair. -- Robert Kennedy
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions. -- Johnny Carson
So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point -- Brian De Palma
Shooting is a lost art, but nobody wants to see nobody shoot all day. You want to see somebody break somebody off the dribble. That's today game, and that's what I try to do. -- Dwyane Wade

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