"The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground."

-- Stephen Vincent Benet

#Art Quotes #Garden Quotes #Feet Quotes

“for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.”
“Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.”
“There is no problem so bad that you cannot make it worse”
“Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?”
“The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.”
“That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.”

Source : Max Barry (2007). “Company”, p.111, Vintage
“A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.”
“If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.”

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