William Thomas Beckford Quotes

I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.

William Thomas Beckford

William Thomas Beckford

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I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

Aaron Ciechanover
- World
- Live
- Hope
Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

Camille Paglia
- World
- Music
- Art
The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.

Kate Williams
- World
- Past
- Question
I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.

A. S. Byatt
- World
- Know
- Almost
The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

Xavier Niel
- People
- World
- Today
It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

Gabourey Sidibe
- Up
- World
- Women