Maansi Sharma Quotes & Sayings

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial. — Danny Lyon

as a man's strength is, so shall his anger be, and according to his riches he shall increase his anger. — Various

He did his best to conceal this antipathy, because the one thing he hated, more than constituted authority itself, was to hear constituted authority questioned by anyone but himself. This is perhaps an endemic trait in all who love power, and my father had an absolute passion for power, although he was never in a position to wield it on a notable scale. — Anthony Powell

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity ... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more. — Joe Meno

Eternal rest, grant unto her, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and all the souls of the faithfully departed rest in peace. Amen. — Ann Patchett

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. — Leopold Von Ranke

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. — Anne Stevenson

Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover. — Marcus Tullius Cicero