I love the word 'fashion.' That's why I'm using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequen...
Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (when there was one), and mingled their shade with th...
It starts innocently. Casually. You turn up at the annual spring fair full of beans, help with the raffle tickets (because the pretty red-haired music teacher asks you to) and win a bottle of whiskey (all school raffles are fixed), and, before you kn...
Adversity is a school that you need not apply to be enrolled. It has no respect for age, wealth, education, race, power, fame or beauty. It is a school among schools and every human being passes through the school in one format or the other. It is al...
But there's a problem," Dr. Bramble said. He tapped his forehad. "And it's right up here." Our greatest talent, he explained, also created the monster that could destroy us. "Unlike any other organism in history, humans have a mind-body conflict: we ...
[first lines] Frank Costello: I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. Years ago we had the church. That was only a way of saying - we had each other. The Knights of Columbus were real head-breakers...
Oliver Queenan: Do you know what we do here? My section? Billy Costigan: Sir, yes, sir. I have an idea... Dignam: [interrupting] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's say you have no idea and leave it at that, okay? No idea. Zip. None. If you had an idea of what w...
Frank Costello: I got this rat, this gnawing, cheese eating fuckin' rat and it brings up questions... You know, see, Bill, like you're the new guy. Girlfriend... Why don't you stay in the bar that night I got your numbers. Social Security numbers. Ev...
Jonathan Mardukas: Why don't you put the cigarette out. Jack Walsh: Why don't you shut up and leave me alone? Jonathan Mardukas: Put the cigarette out, Jack. Jack Walsh: What a... Jonathan Mardukas: Put the cigarette out. Jack Walsh: [laughing, motio...
[Benjamin Peirce's] lectures were not easy to follow. They were never carefully prepared. The work with which he rapidly covered the blackboard was very illegible, marred with frequent erasures, and not infrequent mistakes (he worked too fast for acc...
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.
...a dream isn't a wish - it's an altered state of consciousness ...
Age is only a state of mind. You are as young as you think.
War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
