"Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned—not to see what is not."
Maria Mitchell(08/01/1818 – 06/28/1889)
US astronomer
"Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned—not to see what is not."
Maria Mitchell
"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Herman Melville
"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."
Dame Rose Macaulay
"The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set."
Benjamin E. Mays
"No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man."
Israel Zangwill
"I'm actually a thin, serious person, but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies."
Dom DeLuise
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
Yves Saint-Laurent
"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
Jerry Garcia
"We say it's Lesbian Seven. We say it's a level of consciousness when you get to level seven in meditation. We say it's lubrication, a love jelly called L7. There's actually a guitar amp called L7... there's also a panty size L7—large seven—very apropos for this band."
Suzi Gardner
"Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't."
Theodore Roethke
"Sex. What Fun."
Sam Mendes
"I went to Sunday school and liked the stories—about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful, but I didn't believe them. It was too vague."
Frances Farmer
"Television is democracy at its ugliest."
Paddy Chayefsky
"Damn sympathy! I don't care whether they love me or not. I don't care whether I am beautiful or not. I want a chance to act."
Pola Negri