Telephantom Quotes & Sayings

No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say many things indifferent, and many very bad. — Francis Lockier

Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house. — Mary McCarthy

There was something soul-burningly about being on the brink of losing control, tumbling over into the unknown, and I wanted to fall and never resurface.
- Jennifer L. Armentrout — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces. — Martha Graham

Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain. — David Bellos

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It's this in-between that I'm calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist. — Federico Fellini