They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

Manolo Blahnik

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...

John Geddes

I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

General Douglas MacArthur

This is pretty strange, not poems, poems are pretty good.

James Dye

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro

In the only sense that matters the surprise works as well the twentieth time as the first. It is the quality of unexpectedness, not the fact that delights us. It is even better the second time. Knowing that the 'surprise' is coming we can now fully relish the fact that this path through the shrubbery doesn't look as if it were suddenly going to bring us out on the edge of the cliff. So in literature. We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we are leisure to savour the real beauties. Till then, it is like wasting great wine on a ravenous natural thirst which merely wants cold wetness. The children understand this well when they ask for the same story over and over again, and in the same words. They want to have again the 'surprise' of discovering that what seemed Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother is really the wolf. It is better when you know it is coming: free from the shock of actual surprise you can attend better to the intrinsic surprisingness of the peripeteia.

C.S. Lewis

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

J.K. Rowling

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

Herschel Walker

First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

Jerry Saltz

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

Stealing things is a glorious occupation, particularly in the art world.

Malcolm Mclaren