Firsts Quote by Domenico Gnoli

When you go to a show on opening night, or even the second performance, it is at the very beginning of what it will…

— Susanna Phillips

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

— Franklyn Ajaye

In any performance, you're on stage for two hours, and there's 40 seconds or maybe a whole five minutes where you feel like the…

— Patti Smith

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…

— Jean Baudrillard

Why don't you conceive of God as an ally who is coming, who has been approaching since time began, the one who will someday…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and…

— Lajos Kossuth

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years…

— Ayn Rand

Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those…

— Whitney Chadwick

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Act as if the universe is a prodigious miracle created for your amusement and illumination. Assume that secret helpers are working behind the scenes…

— Rob Brezsny

If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would…

— Iain Banks

With prodigious bravery and eviscerating humor, Roxane Gay takes on culture and politics in Bad Feminist-and gets it right, time and time again. We…

— Ayelet Waldman