POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
No, Don Camillo; you didn't exactly steal it. Peppone had two cigars in his pocket. Peppone is a Communist. He believes in sharing things. By skillfully relieving him of one cigar, you only took your fair share.
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of ambition. The political goal presupposes the two others. The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation. Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation]. . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.