Klyne Snodgrass Quotes & Sayings

City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New York impressed me tremendously because, more than any other city, it is the fullest expression of our modern age. — Leon Trotsky

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Porn is in the eye of the beholder. — Adriano Bulla

In this world, this life, "flow" [the times when our work or play so absorbs and attunes our energies that we lose track of time] comes to an end. The canvas is dry, the fugue is complete, the band plays the tag one more time and then resolves on the final chord. And, too, the book is finished, the service is over, the lights go up in the darkened theater and we emerge blinking into the bright lights of the "real world." But what if the timeless, creative world we had glimpsed is really the real world -- and it is precisely its reality that gave it such power to captivate us for a while? What if our ultimate destiny is that moment of enjoyment and engagement we glimpse in the artist's studio? — Andy Crouch

You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above all, by keeping at it, day after day, year after fiscal year, until stealing is legal again. — Matt Taibbi

I spoke in English because the language of the Frisian people is so close to our own. — Bernard Cornwell

Even though I live in and love Chicago, I can't stand deep-dish pizza. I'm a New York-style pizza person. — Graham Elliot

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test. — Karlfried Graf Durckheim

What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories. — Gregory Maguire

I crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me, I could have thought, with wonder, the first creature of that sort that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them; I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house; and coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Customers pay a price, but they remember the value. — Ron Kaufman

I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me. — Roel Reine

If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail. — Tucker Max