Paresis Hall Quotes

#1. A good part of any day in Los Angeles is spent driving, alone, through streets devoid of meaning to the driver, which is one reason the place exhilarates some people, and floods others with an amorphous unease.

Joan Didion

#2. Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend ... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.

Elsa Peretti

#3. [..] it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#4. Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

Khalil Gibran

#5. The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

Regina Doman

#6. In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

Francesca Lia Block