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“The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.”
Source : Quoted in David Pickering Brewer'sTwentieth-Century Music (1994).
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“I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do.”
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“I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this modern world of ours, she wraps her sublime body in great heavy furs and warms her feet on the prostrate body of her lover. I imagine the favorite of this beautiful despot, who is whipped when his mistress grows tired of kissing him, and whose love only grows more intense the more he is trampled underfoot. I shall call the picture "Venus in Furs”
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“Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.”
Source : Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.
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“If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.”
Source : Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.37, Basic Books
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“I prefer to be handcuffed at home. The idea of voice work to me is great fun, especially when it's a chance to do two different voices.”
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“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”
Source : 1965 In Publisher's Weekly, 5 Apr. See Wilde 909:22.
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“Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.”
