"Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 a whole community saying grace made me expect the worst."

-- Pauline Kael

#Home Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Night Quotes

“Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.”
“The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.”

Source : Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books
“I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.”
“Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been.”
“Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.”
“There is a difference between dramatizing your sensibility and your personality. The literary works which we think of as classicsdid the former. Much modern writing does the latter, and so has an affinity with, say, night-club acts in all their shoddy immediacy.”
“All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.”

Source : Josh Lanyon (2010). “Fair Game”, p.112, Carina Press
“Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.”

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