"Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)"

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Strong Quotes #Cheer Quotes #House Quotes

“I leave these speculations to others. Itâ€™s quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesnâ€™t have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.”

Source : "Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast". Interview with Dean Brierly, photographyinterviews.blogspot.com. April 22, 2009.
“A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.”
“The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.”
“Itâ€™s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. Itâ€™s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. Itâ€™s like some form of skinâ€™s developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. "Hide and Seek”
“I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.”
“What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.”
“I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.”
“I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am.”

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