“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.” PeopleThinkingHumansImportantStoriesSidesDarkFireViolenceFashionHuman NatureSittingTraditionDietsCynicismBrutalityDark SideSitting AroundStaples Author:Eric Stoltz
“The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.” IdeasRealEarthCoursesSunFireFashionEssentialsEssenceUniversalAffectionAttachmentSwingsModernity Author:Marsden Hartley
“"If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!"” IfsLooksFireFashionRiversDearFlightAviationCriedDear Friend Author:Francois Laurent d'Arlandes
“Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.” LifeAcceptingFireFashionAppearanceTriumphRelyPalePedants Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.” ThinkingMenMadeBeautifulFormDifferencesFireFashionHolyNormalShoesRevelationsMutualWealthyPassagesEnginesHomageLyricalSterlingFootwearPerfectly Normal Author:William Gibson