Maffett Pound Quotes & Sayings

I lived and grew up in the black and white period of photojournalism. — Rene Burri

Our ideas held no water but we used them like a dam. — Modest Mouse

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs. — Ed Rendell

May the flop be with you. — Doyle Brunson

Widen your vision of what beauty is. Realize and keep close the fact that a beauty standard has been created by the very people who sell it, and that it is no accident that the accepted "beauty standard" can easily be described as "perfect." Flaws are not tolerated if you want to be perfect. But the models that we see most often--even the tallest and thinnest and most doe-eyed--are still pinned and sprayed and pulled into place. Then they are manipulated digitally until, literally, everything that might be perceived as a "flaw" is erased. This is a way to sell product. It has nothing to do with real life. It has nothing to do with you. We are made of so-called "flaws." They are the thread that stitches our parts together and keeps us from being generic cut-out paper dolls. You are beautiful. You are enough, now and always. You have always been enough. — Lindsey Gates-Markel

My troops may fail to take a position, but are never driven from one! — Stonewall Jackson

Everyone has an interest in the economy: in how it functions, how well it functions, and in whose interests it functions. — Jim Stanford

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess. — Vicente Del Bosque

I looked inside my typewriter. There's a city in there. Black and grey columns and no inhabitants. — Helen Oyeyemi

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. — Jon Meacham

A hundred feet underground, in a fake field beneath a fake sky, with an ogre slaughtered like no more than a rat to a cat, and he sends us to search for the unusual. — Jim C. Hines

There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras. — Ren Ng

We don't know in advance what we're going to do in the future, but the truth is we often don't know what we were thinking in the past. — Nagaru Tanigawa

Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead.
— Dean Koontz