“I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.” ThinkingStillsHandsTodayWantedSexSawsObjectsFoolTerribleAwfulFlatteringLike Her Author:Gail Levin
“Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.” PeopleIfsIdeasTurnsNumbersCitiesNew YorkObjectsIndustryTerribleAttractionTouristsTourism Author:Fran Lebowitz
“There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.” CausesDifferencesCasesObjectsTerribleAnd LoveWideAdmireFormerLatterAdmirationSubmitSublimeFlatteredCompliance Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.” ChildrenPossibilityObjectsTerribleLessonsAnxietyFellowsTrainStrangerDirtyFoulTravellerIrrevocableContingencyTalkative Book:The Black Prince Source: The Black Prince
“And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.” WayValuesDiesLossLove IsObjectsTerribleQuietLateToo LateTerrible ThingsValue Of Love Author:Vera Nazarian