"The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there."

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Source : Source: classic.esquire.com

Robert Benton

#Knowing Quotes #Style Quotes #Perfume Quotes

“Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves. . .”
“A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.”

Source : Reynolds Price (2013). “Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
“I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.”
“Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.”
“Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.”
“When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.”
“Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.”
“If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.”

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