Picture Perfect
“Brevity is the soul of wit”, wrote William Shakespeare in Hamlet. It is also one of the key elements in making quotations…well…quotable. A quote is the literary equivalent of the 10-second sound bite. It has to be quick and, yes, it has to bite. If properly delivered, few get the chance to bite back.
So before […]
Wilde Thing
Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that.
James Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will.
A few words on Oscar Wilde and James Whistler are merited. Whistler, of course, is best known for his nearly black-and-white full-length portrait of his mother, in fact titled Arrangement in Gray and Black: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, but usually referred […]
In Praise of Quotations
Over the course of my career, I have made (altogether too) many presentations. I am not that charismatic a speaker and so I like to use props. Things like obscure and, at first glance, disconnected-from-plot paraphernalia, a little management by walking around, dazzling graphics that may or may not move around, just clever enough quips, […]
