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“The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.”
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“When a man says I cannot, he has made a suggestion to himself. He has weakened his power of accomplishing that which otherwise would have been accomplished.”
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“I just throw myself into a mad frenzy, whip up a storm and see what comes through.”
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“Death is a name for beauty not in use.”
Source : 1953 'Composition in Late Spring', collected in The Collected Poems of Irving Layton (1971).
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“Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.”
Source : "French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.
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“I'm not convinced that the people of Arizona as a nation couldn't do better to protect equal rights for all than the people of Arizona as part of the United States, which is actually not helping them much.”
Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
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“People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.”
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“I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.”
Source : Song: Life's Been Good, Album: But Seriously, Folks...
