"The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Two Quotes #History Quotes #Venus Quotes

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.101, Soho Press
“What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?”

Source : The Whitsun Weddings (1964) "Days"
“The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.”
“As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked.”
“Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.”
“The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.”
“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”
“It was just wet, not stinky?”

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