Winterfresh 18s Quotes & Sayings

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass

Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she. — Mary Lascelles

Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries. — Greg Baxter

Clever deceivers rarely tell outright falsehoods. It's too risky. The art of deception is closely related to the magician's craft: it involves knowing how to draw attention to a harmless place, to deflect it away from the action. Deeply entrenched patterns of perceptual, emotional, and cognitive dispositions serve as instruments of deception. A skilled deceiver is an illusionist who knows how to manipulate the normal patterns of what is salient to their audience. He places salient markers - something red, something anomalous, something desirable - in the visual field, to draw attention just where he wants it. — Clancy Martin

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover. — Paul Gauguin

There's only one Enoch Showunmi. Thank God for that! — Jeff Stelling

I am an anarch in space, a metahistorian in time. Hence I am committed to neither the political present nor tradition; I am blank and also open and potent in any direction.
Dear old Dad, in contrast, still pours his wine into the same decaying old wineskins, he still believes in a constitution when nothing and no one constitutes anything. — Ernst Junger

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison