The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
A magnificent restoration awaits us. Christ comes in judgment; then restoration.
What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism.
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.
Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.
Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.
I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other big contribution to this, which most people I show footage to take note of is Mauro Fiore's cinematography is unbelievable.
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?