Pransky Seth Quotes & Sayings

The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. — Erwin Panofsky

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it. — Donald Miller

Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking; some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is faith? Faith is being grasped by the power of love. — William Sloane Coffin

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals. — Wang Jianlin

We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase. — Stuart R. Levine

I hadn't accepted he was seriously ill. The idea that someone so close to you couldn't wake up was utterly incomprehensible. Then the doctor came in ... Maurice had no brain left. There wasn't any activity at all. — Robin Gibb

You don't know what I am, anymore. You cannot fathom what I've endured. Don't imagine you've tamed me. — Jodi Meadows

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone's brown skin. — Jamaica Kincaid

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone. — Sal Mineo

There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good. — Saul Bass

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. — Joseph Joubert

When you cross that chasm so that what you believe to be true merges into what is actually true, you have earned the right to inner peace. — Hyrum W. Smith

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly. — Emmanuelle Riva