I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.
Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian. ' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working for American studios, and was handed the Ladies Home Journal and asked to adapt the stories for the screen. He found ways to use his artistry to make them interesting and nuanced, while critiquing American values in the process.
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.
I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.