Art

Olga Skomorokhova

“I am blind — but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as ‘broil’ . . . I’m sorry, I’ll just feel that again.” -Peter Cook

“Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.” -Otto von Bismarck

“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.” -Peter De Vries

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair

“What is a farm but a mute gospel?” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.” -Billy Connolly

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain

“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.” -Victor Hugo

“I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.” -George S. Kaufman

“He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.” -Leo Tolstoy