4243770950 Quotes & Sayings

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. — Ansel Adams

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare. — Voltaire

Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow. — James Norwood Pratt

Angels and demons, heaven and hell, God, morality, law and language. It's all metaphor. Scaffolding to handle the areas where base reality won't cut it for you guys, where it's too cold for humans to live without something made up. We codify our hopes and fears and wants, and then build whole societies on the code. And then forget it ever was code and treat it like fact. Act like the universe gives a shit about it. Go to war over it, string men and women up by the neck for it. Firebomb trains and skyscrapers in the name of it. — Richard Morgan

It was genuinely horrible. I stopped using Twitter for a while because I got so much s**t about being anorexic. And Im not. — Alexa Chung

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school. — Patricia Reilly Giff

Mine is the tongue tied silence of awkwardness, hers the smiling silence of anticipation, and then we utter inanities to each other, like "beautiful weather arranged for us" and "I like these kind of clouds. — Meir Shalev

We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward. — Max Lucado

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others? — William J. Clinton

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs. — Mitch Horowitz