“Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.” GivingMayMinutesExpressionConversationLifetimeRepeatsSuperficialVacuity Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
“I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.” IfsShouldMeanI CanTwoDesireTeachMinutesExpressionCookingDinnerCooksKitchenHow To Love Author:Mario Batali
“But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming at a moment's notice a new intellectual posture, for the art of entering quickly into another person's thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms, for the habit of regarding minute points of accuracy, for the habit of working out what is possible in a given time, for taste, for discrimination, for mental courage and mental soberness.” PersonsArtMomentsSchoolGivenTermAttentionMinutesExpressionHabitTasteIntellectualAssumingWork OutDiscriminationEnteringDissentAccuracyPostureCensureRefutationGreat Schools Author:William Johnson Cory
“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.” LooksLastsFacesDealsGoneFiveMinutesDogExpressionTerribleDisguiseFive MinutesMy DogRepose Author:Judy Holliday
“The major difference frequently is in time. The motion picture, for example, gives you considerably more freedom of expression than does the confined thirty-minute television show. But in essence, they're not that dissimilar.” GivingDoeShowsDifferencesMinutesExampleTelevisionExpressionMajorsEssenceThirtyConfinedFreedom Of ExpressionTelevision ShowsMotion Pictures Author:Rod Serling