Vitrines Quotes & Sayings

You are like a shell," he said. "A seashell. Hollow but beautiful."
"Hollow." She nodded.
For the rest of the day, they sat not far from each other, gazing out the window at the light shifting almost imperceptibly. They sat about and let themselves be objects on which dust might settle, air might past, light could play.
"I am just an emptiness," she said.
"No," he told her. "You are a resting place. — Ramona Ausubel

The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance. — Edmund De Waal

Martin Luther was a thoroughly educated man but he wore this lightly. His sermons were littered with only examples and improving tales, drawing equally from the fables of Aesop and the follies of life he observed all around him. — Andrew Pettegree

I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space ... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before! — Halle Berry

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. — Epictetus

Folk music has pretty powerful medicine for changing your heart. — Paul Stookey

I don't think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I'm not. — Jeremy Clarkson

Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade. — Ramon Magsaysay

Don't ever think you're alone here,
We've just been trapped in different hells,
And people aren't against you dear,
They're just all for themselves. — Erin Hanson

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. — Henri La Fontaine

And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men — Edgar Lee Masters

Every time you check your phone in company, what you gain is a hit of stimulation, a neurochemical shot, and what you lose is what a friend, teacher, parent, lover, or co-worker just said, meant, felt. — Sherry Turkle