The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

You can change friends but not neighbours.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

Orson Scott Card

Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.

Michael Haneke

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

Octavia Butler

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

Zakk Wylde

A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.

Source Unknown

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Maureen O'Hara

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

Joey Lauren Adams

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Doug Horton