"The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures."

-- Gail Caldwell

#Lovely Quotes #Honor Quotes #Triumph Quotes

“An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.”

Source : Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”
“I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character of Ivy [Wilkes] began to take shape for me.”
“I want my music to leave an indelible mark.”
“There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”

Source : "J. Robert Oppenheimer" by L. Barnett in Life Magazine, Volume 7, No. 9, International Edition (p. 58), October 24, 1949.
“I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.”
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
“I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.”
“In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.”

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