Bernard Berenson Quotes
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Bernard Berenson
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.
Yuichiro Miura
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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.
Carla Bley
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin
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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.
Ingrid Betancourt
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Kate Fleetwood
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Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.
Charles L. Whitfield
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The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.
Rhys Ifans
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
Anton Chekhov
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Bernard Berenson
