"She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands."

Source : Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)

Walter Pater

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“Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.”

Source : "Transcript: Jose Maria Aznar on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2004.
“Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.”
“I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.”

Source : Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing
“Be fascinated instead of frustrated.”
“Increasingly as I've gotten older, I'm much more interested in what the reality of the shoot is going to be versus what the result of the shoot might be. I'm so bad at guessing what's going to be good and what's going to be bad - there doesn't seem to be any correlation between things that are within your control.”
“All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.”
“The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.”

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