"The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with."

-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Play Quotes #Meat Quotes #Inspired Quotes

“There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.”
“But I don't care what Megan Fox or Jessica Biel say: There are definite advantages to being the hottest girl on the planet. Number one was that I got paid for it. A lot.”
“Of all the memorable phrases that have been minted and mobilised to describe modern British royalty, 'constitutional monarchy' is virtually the only one which seemes to have neither been anticipated nor invented by Walter Bagehot. It was he who insisted that 'a princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and as such it rivets mankind'; and he who warned that the monarchy's 'mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic'.”
“There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.”

Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.7, Columbia University Press
“As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.”
“Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.”
“The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.”
“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”

Source : TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

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