Capacity Quote by Juan Goytisolo

The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society’s image…

— Fred Polak

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie…

— Scott Rudin

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur,…

— Jay-Z

If youre going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, youve got to be making the kind of movie…

— Scott Rudin

“He saw a chamber, broad and low, designed, in its every rich stain of picture and slumberous hanging, to appeal to the sensuous. And…

— Bernard Capes

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are…

— Salman Rushdie

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

— Rita Mae Brown

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment…

— Rufus Wainwright

“After two years' absence she finally returned to chilly Europe, a trifle weary, a trifle sad, disgusted by our banal entertainments, our shrunken landscapes,…

— Octave Mirbeau

“(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language... forcing itself to express…

— Theophile Gautier

I think Illium can take care of himself.” “Not if he keeps flirting with you.” A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and…

— Nalini Singh

“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the…

— Asti Hustvedt

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

— Robert Silverberg