Vocabulary and quotes

artist's workroom, atelier   (noun) a studio especially for an artist or designer atelier   (Noun) A workshop or studio especially for an artist, designer or fashion house. Origin:  From atelier. Sample Sentences & Example Usage It's not the famous postcard that you normally have of Rome, there's something more intimate, and that's the portrait we like. We also think couture is more intimate because there's a relationship between the client and the  atelier.  It's one of a kind and the best limited edition you could have. Almost as soon as Carolyn [Christov-Bakargiev] showed me these images of this  atelier,  I immediately understood that also, as a city, it was these Armenian fingers and hands that were creating these motifs on the building that were bearing silent witness to the trauma in the past 100 years. And it was almost like this architectural seance, where these citizens that were forcibly forgotten, were able to come back i...

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre." Kurt Vonnegut Jr. » Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

tsuris   (noun) (Yiddish) aggravating trouble "the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to" tsuris   (Noun) Problems or troubles. Origin:  Borrowed from צרות, plural of tsore ‘trouble, problem’, after Hebrew.

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." E. E. Cummings » Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e. e. cummings (in the style of his poems), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright

"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory." Elbert Hubbard » Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

"In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson » 3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)

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