War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie
Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.
...I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow...
...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...
What's all this hiding happiness and wine away? I've lined up with the libertines now, come what may.
Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.
I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.
When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-
Interesting fact from the front lines: raw grief smells like ripped leaves and splintered branches, a jagged green shriek.
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.
All the men I know add that “hands that prepared it” line. They must know it’s right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.
In a field hospital, some ten kilometres behind the lines, Marius lay dying. For three days he had been dying and it was disturbing to the other patients.
I was 14 years old. I did an audition for extra work as an actor, with two lines. Suddenly I was auditioning for a bigger role, and then got a part on a Portuguese TV series at age 15. My whole life changed completely.
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
