Gainsboroughs Blue Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women — Lillian B. Rubin

She knew my buttons and kept pressing them like an epileptic in an arcade. If it's any consolation, I gave her fair warning." "Oh, my God! — Tim Dorsey

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. — Rodger Kamenetz

Thought Experiment: Imagine that you are Johnny Carson and find yourself caught in an intolerable one-on-one conversation at a cocktail party from which there is no escape. Which of the two following events would you prefer to take place: (1) That the other person become more and more witty and charming, the music more beautiful, the scene transformed to a villa at Capri on the loveliest night of the year, while you find yourself more and more at a loss; or (2) that you are still in Beverly Hills and the chandeliers begin to rattle, a 7.5 Richter earthquake takes place, and presently you find yourself and the other person alive and well, and talking under a mound of rubble.
If your choice is (2), explain why it is possible for a true conversation to take place under the conditions of (2) but not (1). — Walker Percy

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well. — Jerry Saltz

How odd; wedded for life, because one of us had died. — Emma Donoghue

Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good. — George Katona

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs. — William Allen White

The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. — Thomas Pynchon

I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing. — Lita Ford

There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it. — Ernest Holmes