I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch. – Emily Dickinson
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but shell appear in film and it wont work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I dont know. – Oliver Stone
Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
