Cortesano Quotes & Sayings

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. — Noam Chomsky

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person. — Harry Connick Jr.

A lawyer's answer ... so close to the truth that the truth was able to hide in its shadow. — Stephen King

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps. — Elena Ferrante

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine. — Mem Fox

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with ... greater joy, peace, and happiness. — Jimmy Carter

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached. — Anatole Broyard

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. — Henry David Thoreau

But where the human form withdraws from photography, there for the first time display value gets the better of cultic value. And it is having set the scene for this process to occur that gives Atget, the man who captured so many deserted Parisian streets around 1900, his incomparable significance. Quite rightly it has been said of him that he recorded those streets like crime scenes. A crime scene, too, is deserted. Atget snaps clues. With Atget, photographs become exhibits in the trial that is history. — Walter Benjamin

I kiss him, and I am reborn — Kiersten White