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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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Edward VIII, 1957In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1843The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
—Ronald Reagan, 1965There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCGod walks among the pots and pans.
—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
—Madame de Sévigné, 1671