Akechi Persona Quotes & Sayings

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers ... They say, 'We came to liberate you ... ' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never ... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me. — Josef Koudelka

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights. — Yo-Yo Ma

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. — Mignon McLaughlin

There is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and — Teresa Of Avila

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored. — Pietra Brettkelly

A pitcher is only as good as his legs. — Early Wynn

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything. — Eckhart Tolle

Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. — John Green

People always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them — Jane Austen

All this was made clear enough to the assembled industrialists and they responded with enthusiasm to the promise of the end of the infernal elections, of democracy and disarmament. — William L. Shirer

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? — Aaron Allston

I love riding, even if it's just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there's a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God. — Queen Latifah

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure. — Bill Foster

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave. — Tom Shales