Bernard Berenson Quotes
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.
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The romance of English football is fantastic, but it has lost its identity under the influence of other cultures.
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The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.
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When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
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Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
