Simon Schama Power Of Art Rothko Quotes & Sayings

It occurred to him now to ask himself if this was how it happened : was it possible that the mere fact of using one's hands and investing one's attention in someone other than oneself, created a pride and tenderness that had nothing whatever to do with the response of the object of one's care - just as a craftsman's love for his handiwork is in no way diminished by the fact of it being unreciprocated? — Amitav Ghosh

I look spooky but I'm really nice. — Sharon Needles

Because I know that time is time and place is always and only place and what is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place, I rejoice that things are as they are and I renounce the blessed faces and renounce the voice because I cannot hope to turn again. — T. S. Eliot

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask. — Alan Cohen

As the explanation wound on, Eck began to get a whiff of the unmistakable scent of bullshit. — Mark Zwonitzer

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds. — William Sloane Coffin Jr.

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.
— Janet Fitch

Discipline - both mental and physical - is crucial. — Anna Deavere Smith

The whole reason people fill their homes with furry carnivores and not with, say, iguanas and turtles, is because mammals offer something no reptile ever will. They give affection, they want affection, and respond to our emotions the way we do to theirs. — Frans De Waal