"During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President Francois Mitterrand and Italian President Alessandro Pertini, as well as during a one-on-one audience with the Pope--that they privately christened the trip 'The Big Sleep.'"

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Source : "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

Mark Hertsgaard

#Sleep Quotes #Italian Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.”
“The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.”
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
“I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.”
“And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.”
“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

Source : "True Humanism". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. xi), 1938.
“If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.”
“Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.”

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