Forbidden Power

Famous quotes containing the words forbidden and/or power:

    Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at least in our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)