I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?
The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.
For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.