"However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too."

-- Oskar Kokoschka

#May Quotes #Faces Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”
“Milliseconds influence centuries.”
“If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.”
“Unfortunately I'm still straight. But who knows, life is complicated and maybe I'll wake up gay tomorrow! Here's hoping. And congratulations to everyone who lives in a place where they can marry the person they love, regardless of gender!”
“We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.”
“A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.”
“The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.”

Source : Daily Telegraph, October 12, 1989.

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