To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other. Florence King Read Quote
If an artist I liked disowned songs that meant a lot to me, I would be pretty hurt by that. Porter Robinson Read Quote
When you’re sitting ringside, there’s a primal thing there that hooks into violence and excitement. It’s just two guys going at it in the ring – there’s no team, no one to pass the ball to – and there’s a certain excitement to that. Antoine Fuqua Read Quote
The films that have influenced me most are: ‘The Hustler’, ‘Badlands’, ‘Hud’, ‘Tender Mercies’, ‘Cool Hand Luke’, ‘A Perfect World’, and ‘Laurence of Arabia’. I also really like ‘Fletch’. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories. Jeff Nichols Read Quote
I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. Kate Walsh Read Quote
The ‘International Style of Modernism’ came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet. Bjarke Ingels Read Quote
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister. Shelby Foote Read Quote
When I was made captain, one of my things was that whatever happens in those four years, you don’t want to make major changes just before a World Cup. We’d done it before, and it never worked. Alastair Cook Read Quote
