Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. Caspar David Friedrich Read Quote
Painting… in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable. Lee Krasner Read Quote
I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, ‘Hello.’ Ira Sachs Read Quote
I’ve worked with some terrific actors. The list of guys that came on the ‘Columbo’ show, I mean they were world-class actors from all over the world – Oskar Werner, Laurence Harvey, Donald Pleasence, you know… foreigners. Peter Falk Read Quote
When I started out, I was what they called corny. After a week in Nashville they were calling me hillbilly. Vera Lynn Read Quote
Eschatological fears are an ancient human concern. The Romans expected the world to end in 634 B.C. owing to a prophecy involving twelve eagles, while the early Christians anticipated the Final Judgment in their own lifetimes. Pope Sylvester II thought A.D. 1000 would be the last year, a view updated for the modern age by the Millennium bug. Jacob Rees-Mogg Read Quote
I’ve got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they’re described. That’s what I love when I read. Alice McDermott Read Quote
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. Brigham Young Read Quote
If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place. Koren Zailckas Read Quote
