“London has changed enormously and so have the English in the past decade. They're more like Americans and more like Europeans, too. They're always eating out, and when they're at home they don't cook the way they did ten years ago. They're all sitting around in cafés, like the Continentals, drinking coffee and chattering and watching the world go by.” WorldWayYearsHomePastChangedTenEatingSittingYears AgoDrinkingLondonDecadesCoffeeCooksSitting AroundDrinking CoffeeEating OutAlways Eating Author:Doris Lessing
“I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.” WorldPersonsI CanPastRaceTalkingLeaderImagineSittingDown AndMarsServitudeBaggageSupremacySitting Down Author:Alice Walker
“Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the whole point. We're doing this to create a kind of sentimental past for people in decades to come. It's their past, their history we're inventing here. And it's not how I look now that matters. It's how I'll look in twenty-five years as clothing and faces change, as photographs change. The deeper I pass into death, the more powerful my picture becomes. Isn't this why picture-taking is so ceremonial? It's like a wake. And I'm the actor made up for the laying-out.” PeopleYearsLooksKindMeanMadeMatterWholePastFacesActorsPowerfulFiveSubjectsSittingTwentiesPhotographDeeperDecadesFive YearsClothingsPortraitsSentimentalInventingTwenty FiveMorbidPicture Taking Book:Mao II Source: Mao II
“For most visitors to Manhattan, both foreign and domestic, New York is the Shrine of the Good Time. "I don't see how you stand it," they often say to the native New Yorker who has been sitting up past his bedtime for a week in an attempt to tire his guest out. "It's all right for a week or so, but give me the little old home town when it comes to living." And, under his breath, the New Yorker endorses the transfer and wonders himself how he stands it.” GivingLittlesHas BeensHomePastWonderWeekNew YorkSittingGive MeTownsBreathsNativeGood TimesGuestsTireManhattanTransfersNew YorkersVisitorsBedtimeShrinesHome TownSitting Up Author:Robert Benchley