"A monolithic framework does not create a critical mind," remarked the religious philosopher David Hartman.
Tóibín, with her toothbrush in mind, remarks that she applied "the same zeal to collecting her folklore as to collecting her rents".
The Israeli government's decision to defend its occupation of the West Bank by arguing that it has a better human rights record than Syria or Iran brings to mind remarks made on this subject by the late British historian Tony Judt, who told The London Review of Books in 2010: Israel wants two things more than anything else in the world.
He had in mind remarks delivered in a recent interview by Sajeeb Wazed, the son of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and an informal consultant for the ruling party, Bangladesh Awami League.
Defending himself, Fry told everyone Beavan was a "dear friend" who didn't mind the remark.
These films bring to mind a remark by Norman Mailer to the effect that the one character that novelists can never successfully imagine is a novelist greater than themselves.
And he keeps in mind a remark made by Nick Stevenson, his fellow-resident in this hazy world: "To restore our emotional balance, we have only to put both hands over our eyes".
Display cases hold vintage scientific instruments, old-fashioned typewriters, and various carefully preserved beetles on stickpins (bringing to mind the remark by biologist J.B.S. Haldane that God must have an "inordinate fondness" for beetles).
But, in the midst of the conflagrations in Egypt and Syria, it does bring to mind the remark of the late French ambassador in London, Daniel Bernard, who in 2001 delivered himself of the view that "all the current troubles in the world are because of that shitty little country Israel".
"It's Mardi Gras for rich people," Jill Heller, a jewelry designer, said later that evening, at a dinner party that the real estate mogul Aby Rosen hosted at the Dutch, a newly opened restaurant in the W hotel. Standing by the bar, Ms. Heller surveyed a crowd so crazily assorted that it called to mind a remark that the film director Joel Schumacher once made to this reporter.
A RT BASEL is "Mardi Gras for rich people," Jill Heller, a jewelry designer, said at a dinner party that the real estate mogul Aby Rosen hosted on Thursday night at the Dutch, a new restaurant in the W hotel. Standing by the bar, Ms. Heller surveyed a crowd so crazily assorted that it called to mind a remark that the film director Joel Schumacher once made to this reporter.
