The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.

William Shakespeare

I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

Evan Davis

There's a fine line between fishing, and standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

Al Green

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Thomas Fuller

To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.

Meyer London

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

Claudius

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself -- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life...

Simone de Beauvoir

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

You can only change that which you love.

Silvia Hartmann

It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Delbert Mcclinton