I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.
—Orson Welles, 1953
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The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, / And drinks, and gapes for drink again.
—Abraham Cowley, 1656Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
—Noël Coward, 1930It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.
—Erasmus, 1518I had rather be in a state of misery and envied for my supposed happiness than in a state of happiness and pitied for my supposed misery.
—Elizabeth Inchbald, 1793Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.
—Terence, 163 BCToday’s city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.
—Martin Oppenheimer, 1969It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street.
—Mary Lease, c. 1890