Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!
The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.
Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.
The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.
