For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… ...
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water.
The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Your motive influences your motion.
Time, motion and wine cause sleep.
...I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bottom of some, gray and ivory canyon, hung above the moon-smashed sea... But, with whatever hindsight, I suppose the reason that I want to close on a c...
Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing in his dream state. He was mad. He entered reality only when he was so busy trying to cope with people that he had no time to...
God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be s...
Chatur Ramalingam aka 'Silencer': Sir: Machines are any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by which means force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged t...
All art is quite useless.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
Even things that are true can be proved.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Most people are boring and stupid.
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.
[J]ene Entsagungen, die die Menschen alberner Weise Tugenden nennen [...]
Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
