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“Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.”
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“Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.”
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“I haven't been on the stage in a long time.”
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“The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.”
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“The only death I fear is dying ignorant.”
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“Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think Ive been lucky to do that.”
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“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long - the care of cares - the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven - and straight you find a new stratum there.”
Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2012). “Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh”, p.542, tredition
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“The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.”
Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.11, Transaction Publishers
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“Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.”
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“For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.”
