A Quote by Mason Cooley

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Bruce Springsteen

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Edgar Degas

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.

Jane Garmey

We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.

Piet Zwart

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

Agnes Martin

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

Agnes Martin

English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.

Germaine Greer

The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

Aldous Huxley

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Joseph Addison

I am now experiencing perfect health, abundant prosperity and complete and utter happiness. This is true because the world is full of charming people who now lovingly help me in every way. I am now coming into an innumerable company of angels. I am now living a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind. Because of my own increased health, wealth and happiness, I am now able to help others live a delightful, interesting and satisfying life of the most widely useful kind, my good - our good - is universal.

Catherine Ponder

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Mark Haddon

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.

Susan Choi

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

Susan Choi

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

Robert D. Kaplan

The American woman is a charming creature. She is of a type most unusual and delightful... And their feet and ankles are the most perfect in the world.

Jean Patou

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug back into my past, I realized I am exactly like my father on so many levels, although I never thought I inherited anything from him.

Robert Lepage

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