Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we...
I'm not entirely sure there is a formula for this,' I say. But I wish there were. I would have followed it, plugging in all my data for x and all of Ethan's for y. And I would have worked out the results before involving my emotions, and I wouldn't f...
The Egyptians are inferior only to themselves. In all other styles we can trace a rapid ascent from infancy, founded on some bygone style, to a culminating point of perfection, when the foreign influence was modified or discarded, to a period of slow...
The fundamental condition of man is his verticality.
I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs.
Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.
Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Happiness is a heart condition and not a state of affairs.
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.
I want to have an affair.
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.
Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
