quotes about Perspiration

“A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.”

“Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!”

“Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.”

“It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.”

Source : "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

“It's like I'm in a closet in a college dorm room.”

“The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.”

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

“You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.”

“Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.”

“Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.”