Bang Bang Club Book Quotes & Sayings

In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real. — Audre Lorde

I was afraid of him. He was outplaying me, plucking all of my weapons from my fingers and making me feel like a toothless tiger. — Tarryn Fisher

I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us. — Fernando Pessoa

Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages ... — Salman Rushdie

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination. — Henri Poincare

I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.' — Luis Tiant

Choose those things that spark joy when you touch them." "Hang those clothes that would be happier on hangers." "Don't worry about throwing away too much. There will come a moment when you know what is just right. — Marie Kondo

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity. — Julia Roberts

That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow. — Stephanie Kuehn

If I beat myself up about the bad stuff I did, I'm ignoring that I was strong enough to stop being that person. I think what I'm doing with my life now is a lot more important than what I did when I was a stupid kid. — Gail Giles

Reality is my drug. The more I have of it, the more power I get and the higher I feel — Curtis Jackson

If you ever touch her again I will fucking kill you," he said in a cold lethal tone that sent chills down her back. "You so much as look at her and I will kill you. — R.L. Mathewson

Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.

Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.

Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system. — Richie Norton