To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the we...
Fresh from reading a summary of Keira Knightley’s interview, I’d like to say that I, too, haven’t been watching TV on a daily basis since 2008. Even though we had TV sets in our Mosc...
I think writing is the ultimate job for a control freak. Alastair Campbell, a British journalist, broadcaster, and author....
You don’t have to see the whole staircase – just take the first step. Martin Luther King, an American activist and civil rights leader. Read an amusing story that took place in Moscow in ...
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Charles Kettering, an American inventor....
Photography and drawing – juxtaposition. For me, photography is a spontaneous impulse towards a constant visual attention that captures both the moment and eternity within it. A drawing, by its...
I failed to think of an illustration to this page. Paul Arden, Whatever you think think the opposite...
We must not think of a woman’s body as a covering for bones; it should not be fat though it should certainly be rounded; it should be firm and slender without thereby appearing to be thin. F. B...
A BMW ad, courtesy of MyBroadband.co.za Any trace of literariness in an advertisement is fatal to its success. Advertisement writers may not be lyrical, or obscure, or in any way esoteric. They must b...
One cannot see what is too close. Time passes and fame comes. All of a sudden people realise that this person was not only a painter, but – for goodness sake! – he was a great painter. Do ...