The sea hath no king but God alone.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1881
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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, 1953The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1962I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
—George Borrow, 1843Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
—P.G. Wodehouse, 1929The earth is beautiful and bright and kindly, but that is not all. The earth is also terrible and dark and cruel.
—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1970I doubt that we have any right to pity the dead for their own sakes.
—Lord Byron, 1817Just as language no longer has anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.
—R.D. Laing, 1967God is making commerce his missionary.
—Joseph Cook, c. 1877If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005