Oblouk Na Quotes & Sayings

Literature may be false, but it is not trivial. — Mason Cooley

The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple. — Edith Wharton

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. — Greg Kinnear

If I'd known a sixty-niner was the way to your heart I would have done it weeks ago. — Amy Andrews

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business. — Patricia Clarkson

The sentimentality of kitsch is a sign of its falseness. But it is also a sign of its extravagance. Unanchored to reality, sentimentality is naturally unbounded. Kitsch is a response to a failure or disintegration of cultural values. When the world no longer speaks meaningfully to us, we shout into the void and pretend the echoes come to us from on high.

The grandiosity of kitsch is in proportion to the existential poverty out of which it arose. In this context, it is worth noting a limitation of that dictionary definition of kitsch. The sentimentality of kitsch can be "sweet," but it can also be sour, malignant. — Roger Kimball

It's a response from Donald Trump [to the Pope]. It says, "If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS ... " Their primary thing ... You've seen what they've done all over the Middle East. Their primary goal is to get to the Vatican. That would be their ultimate trophy. They want to do what they won't to all of these magnificence artifacts and all of the beautiful museums that they've totally destroyed all over the Middle East, right? — Donald Trump