Galleria Lucida Quotes & Sayings

I'm always suspicious of politics dividing people instead of bringing them together. — Barack Obama

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent ... somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre. — Ellen McLaughlin

I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has not typically been one of advocacy for or against any political position. But I regard photographs as commentary, and that includes, at times, taking a specific political viewpoint on an issue. — Mark Klett

Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself). — Friedrich Nietzsche

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact. — John Quincy Adams

Humor is just truth, only faster! — Gilda Radner

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow. — Richard H. Davis

Face in the Sun with the dark circles of beautiful nights the mouths of tigers. — Gwen Calvo

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never. — Franz Kafka

In Delicious's case, it's a great brand that belongs in Silicon Valley. — Chad Hurley

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. — Maurice Maeterlinck