Lazlo Biggs Quotes & Sayings

Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice. — Martin Schoeller

Medicine's good for some people. Not for me. — Shaun Alexander

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. — Don Rickles

Now I can't wait to write my next play. — Scott Caan

Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon.
'Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, 'are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English [ ... ] — Lewis Carroll

A monkey could do my job better and with more hilarious results. — Marie-Helene Bertino

The frightened mind that runs away from everyday terrors meets the seeking mind that wants a better world. — Alan W. Watts

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye. — Cynthia Ozick

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin. — Bryan Greenberg

A few years ago I was involved with a man and when we stopped seeing each other I worried about what it meant to him. Will he remember me the way I remember him? Did I make a lasting impression on him the way he did on me? At some point I thought about that little sentence describing one woman's passion vs. a man's dalliance and seeing how well her passion served her in other ways, and I chose not to care. I don't care what he did or didn't feel. What he does or doesn't remember. I am a person and I count. It meant something to me, therefore it meant something. I will now take my passion and do what I damn well please. How extraordinary to be the passionate one. — Samara O'Shea

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. — Dalai Lama

I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show. — Victoria Justice

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right. — Bill Goldberg

The answer to information asymmetry is not always the provision of more information, especially when most of this 'information' is simply noise, or boilerplate (standardised documentation bolted on to every report). Companies justifiably complain about the ever-increasing volume of data they are required to produce, while users of accounting find less and less of relevance in them. The notion that all investors have, or could have, identical access to corporate data is a fantasy, but the attempt to make it a reality generates a raft of regulation which inhibits engagement between companies and their investors and impedes the collection of substantive information that is helpful in assessing the fundamental value of securities. In the terms popularised by the American computer scientist Clifford Stoll, 'data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom'.9 In — John Kay

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts. — Enric Sala