Citizens Quote by Howard Rheingold

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the…

— Angela Carter

“One encounters in the streets, late at night on the evenings of fetes, the most strange and bizarre passers-by. Do these nights of popular…

— Jean Lorrain

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.

— Hubert de Givenchy

“In the at least three-thousand-year-old struggle between Pentheus and Dionysus— between popes and dancing peasants, between Puritans and carnival-goers, between missionaries and the practitioners…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The day, a compunctious Sunday after a week of blizzards, had been part jewel, part mud. In the midst of my usual afternoon stroll…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“They did not arrive alone but were attended by six cohorts, an assortment of dark-suited men so stern and judgmental of mien as to…

— Joe Keenan

So they grew, and they grew, to the church steeple tops And they couldn't grow up any higher; So they twin'd themselves into a…

— 1st Viscount Lovell Francis Lovell

When I was shooting the film I did not see the story as an everyday tale or a social one. To a great extent,…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

There were Arcadians here, Katagaria, Dark-Hunters, demons, humans, and who knew what else. By rights none of them should get along and yet they…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“An important dimension of Tess of the d’Urbervilles is its debt to the oral tradition; to stories about wronged milkmaids, tales of superstition, and…

— Geoffrey Harvey

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were…

— Holly Hunter

It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass,…

— Laini Taylor