Louise Dahl-Wolfe quotes

“You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.”
-- Louise Dahl-Wolfe

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“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

“We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.”

“Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.”

Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”

“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.”

Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing

“I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.”

“Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do”

“Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.”