Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there’s a mirror in the bathroom, but it’s a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don’t like mirrors because they take you by surprise. – Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Bathroom Quotes Detestable Quotes Dislike Quotes Fine Quotes Magnifying Quotes Mirror Quotes Mirrors Quotes Photographs Quotes Shaving Quotes Surprise Quotes I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I’m not a collector, and I’m not particularly attached to objects. I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.
David Ignatius Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It’s beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran. – David Ignatius
George H W Bush I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around. – George H W Bush
Lupe Fiasco I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they’ll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that’s really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that’s tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, ‘Yeeaaaah – masterpiece.’ – Lupe Fiasco
Leonardo Bonucci What I discovered is that there has always been a soldier inside me; I just didn’t know it. – Leonardo Bonucci
Evan Osnos On some level, there’s a limit to what the government really worries about when it comes to a guy like Ai Weiwei, who’s talking to a limited audience of people. He’s talking to people who more or less already agree with him. – Evan Osnos
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