To draw it to a fine point, as was done under the Empire… is to give the face of the wearer a factitious and evanescent expression, since the points cannot be kept stiff without the use of a cosmetic, easily detected and soon melted. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875
If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped. – Aesop [Context note: The beard here mentioned is on a goat. The fox is speaking
With Good Will Hunting, Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasnt expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way. – Gus Van Sant
I came into music just because I wanted the bread. Its true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted. – Mick Jagger
