Butterfly By Patricia Polacco Quotes & Sayings

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — Ansel Adams

Skating was put on the map, supposedly from me Everybody made a life and a livelihood, um, except me. — Tonya Harding

From a mile away, the sound. The sirens. — Lauren Groff

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone. — Jay Maisel

I love Forever 21. A friend of mine introduced it to me when I was in New York. I was borrowing a dress and said, 'Where's that from?' and she said, 'Oh, it's Forever 21,' and I said, 'What, I've never heard of that!' and she said, 'Oh it's this American brand,' and I thought, 'Why doesn't England have that; why doesn't Europe have one?' — Amber Le Bon

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself. — Smith Wigglesworth

It is very important that you be compassionate with yourself. The worse you feel about yourself, the more you'll want to go back to the false safety of the bad relationship you were in. Your attachment system gets activated more when you feel bad about yourself — Amir Levine

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,
Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.
We try to cry, but still they all die,
I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high. — Tupac Shakur

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them. — Giada De Laurentiis

I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'. — Gabe Newell

The next day, eating a turkey sandwich with salt and mayonnaise, Rebecca decided Thanksgiving was the best holiday, although she had little to choose from: her family never celebrated Hanukkah but her father was militant about ignoring Christmas and insisted they spend December 25 eating Chinese takeout and going to the movies. — Anna Quindlen

Welcome to the Midwest, Mom used to say. Where the weather keeps you guessing and you're almost always sure to hate it. — Jennifer Brown

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public ... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her. — Rainbow Rowell

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss. — Wendell Berry

This is the belief of the Left: You negotiate with evil, and get tough with your allies — Dennis Prager