“I’m happy where I am. Somebody said one time, ‘Success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get.’ I got that house fifty years ago; I love it.” – Warren Buffet’s chiastic reply in 2009 when Tom Brokaw asked him why he lived in the same
Read More →Check out the latest Center Stage column by The Culture Buzz’s John Busbee in Cityview. This month’s feature is about the Greater Des Moines Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theatre Arts Awards event on Sun Aug 25 at Hoyt Sherman Place Theatre. Free for all to attend and be the first
Read More →Check out the latest Center Stage column by The Culture Buzz’s John Busbee in Cityview. This month’s feature is about the Greater Des Moines Cloris Leachman Excellence in Theatre Arts Awards event on Sun Aug 25 at Hoyt Sherman Place Theatre. Free for all to attend and be the first
Read More →“Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn’t need one.” – Alec Guinness, Academy Award-winning actor (1914-2000) Are you curious about where I find these quotes? Dr. Mardy Grothe is considered the foremost authority on quotations, and offers a weekly newsletter (free, quick read, always great content) and use his online
Read More →“One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.” Vincent van Gogh, Dutch artist, died of self-inflicted gunshot wound on July 29, 1890 Are you
Read More →“The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the nore you put into it, the more it will hold.” Glenn Doman Are you curious about where the quotes I find originate? Check out www.drmardy.com and get registered for his
Read More →“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.” Matthew Arnold, in Preface to Literature and Dogma (1873) Are you curious about where the quotes I find originate? If you are like me and
Read More →“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this manner for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.” Arnold Bennett, journal entry (March 18, 1897), in The Journals
Read More →“It always amazes me how many people there are who never seem to understand that what they have done has contributed to the consequences that followed.” Thomas Sowell (b. 1930) (Source: Dr. Mardy Grothe, www.drmardy.com. Mardy offers a free, quick-read newsletter each week. It is themed and a wonderful glimpse
Read More →“It is the end of art to inoculate men (and women) with the love of nature.” Henry Ward Beecher, in Star Papers, or, Experiences of Art and Nature (1855) – NOTE: parenthetical addition mine Featured Cultural Offering: ARTS in Central Iowa abound. From the Des Moines Arts Festival in the
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