December 2010
86 posts
“With his drooping chin and pouty lips, his quaff of hair and dithery manner,...”
– Film critic David Thompson on Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley and other Hollywood stars | Mail Online
e.e. cummings, capitalized.: Everytime you say... →
nicolettemason:
Real women are tall. Real women are short. They’re wide. Gaunt. Their bones can stick out of their collarbones, or be disguised by curves or fat. There are real women with breasts and real women with flat chests. There are real women who have had to have their breasts or…
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, Everything is Illuminated (via booberg)
“It’s not so terrible—it may even be a relief—for a movie to be without the look...”
– Pauline Kael, in her essay “Trash, Art and the Movies.” I cannot overstate the impact this essay had on my appreciation of art and the movies. (via thewhitesoftheireyes)
...while Herzog was giving an interview to Mark...
negativepleasure:
“the poet does not avert his eyes.”
“Poor Wayfaring Stranger” is a traditional folk song of unknown origin....”
– The Wayfaring Stranger (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
