"Make the best of an emergency."

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Source : Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent (2000). “John Singer Sargent: The Sensualist”, p.219, Yale University Press

John Singer Sargent

#Emergencies Quotes

“She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.”
“Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.”
“It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.”
“Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.”
“This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.”
“Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters are like night and day. Watch him. Heâ€™s got everything it takes to be top notch.”
“I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.”
“In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.”

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