Pliny the Elder Quotes
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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It seems that, culturally, young people function more in groups. They know each other through digital media. All the young comedy people who work in TV are really used to working at the table with lots of writers around. They're comfortable in the group; they don't assert their own egos over everyone else.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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Using creative expression as a means to a professional end makes me curl up a bit.
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Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
