Balance Quote by Michael Sheen

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

— Ian Hislop

In the 1950s that tug-of-war between the expectations of behaving normally and the limitlessness of thinking freely produces some very strange characters.

— Hanya Yanagihara

Something about the way I look screams 'aristocrat, 1940s.' It's so strange, because I'm not.

— Phoebe Fox

“In a society that no longer understands the figure of the ascetic and of the warrior; in which the hands of the latest aristocrats…

— Julius Evola

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

“As Victorian-era prudishness set in, some upstanding citizens also took to putting coverlets over the instrument’s legs out of an exaggerated sense of modesty.”

— Stuart Isacoff

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space…

— Anne Roiphe

“-when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade later, Schmidt experiences a kind of full-framed internal…

— David Foster Wallace

“He was a man of between sixty and seventy. From a little distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist. His slightly bald…

— Agatha Christie

“slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package…

— Don DeLillo

I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice…

— David Lauren

I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life,…

— Margot Kidder