quotes about Playing Dress Up

“I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.”

“Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.”

“Now every model wants to be an actress”

“Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.”

“Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.”

“For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.”

“Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”

Source : 'Not Waving but Drowning' (1957)

“Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.”

Source : Luís Fernando Veríssimo (2004). “Borges and the eternal orang-utans”, Vintage

“Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.”

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”