"Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ..."

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Source : Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

Cecil Beaton

#Missing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Bouquets Quotes

“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”
“If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.”
“It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.”
“It's a town full of losers And I'm pulling out of here to win.”
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men â€“ not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular”
“Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college,”
“It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.”
“The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.”

Source : "Tor Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden On the Future of SF Books". Interview with Annalee Newitz, io9.com. August 26, 2009.

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