Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.
Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema.
Forget being a bad failure, use Cosmic Ordering and be good at success.
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.
Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.
Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.
A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...
Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
Another note to self; turn cellphone to silent when you’re trying to be sneaky.
Money may be a good servant, but for sure it is a bad master
