"To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection."

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Katherine Marsh

#Men Quotes #Affection Quotes #Babe Quotes

“The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.”

Source : "20 of the Best White House Photographs of 2014" by Pete Souza, abcnews.go.com. December 29, 2014.
“Already in 1915, Sophie Tauber divides the surface of her aquarelle into squares and rectangles which she then juxtaposes horizontally and perpendicularly as Mondrian, Itten and Paul Klee did in the same period, fh). She constructs them as if they were masonry work. The colors are luminous, ranging from the raw yellow to deep red or blue.”
“What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?”
“China came from a communist dictatorship of the ugliest kind to become a country which today has a smiling population. Things are getting better and better every day - you can feel it, you can touch it over here!”
“The majority of women in America look like me.”
“It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.”
“Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”

Source : Kim Sichel, Philip Guston (1994). “Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles”, University of Washington Press
“Designers provide ways intoâ€”and out ofâ€”the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of designâ€™s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.”

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