Opacities On The Lens Quotes & Sayings

Beware of perpetrators in disguise ... Some people set fires wherever they go, and have mastered the art of playing the burn victim. — Steve Maraboli

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. — Benoit Mandelbrot

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary. — Charlton Heston

It opens the mind toward an understanding of human
nature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the very
essence of that much misinterpreted concept, a liberal
education. It is the foremost approach to humanism,
the lore of the specifically human concerns that distinguish
man from other living beings ... Personal culture
is more than mere familiarity with the present
state of science, technology, and civic affairs. It is
more than acquaintance with books and paintings and
the experience of travel and of visits to museums. It is
the assimilation of the ideas that roused mankind from
the inert routine of a merely animal existence to a life
of reasoning and speculating. It is the individual's
effort to humanize himself by partaking in the tradition
of all the best that earlier generations have
bequeathed. — Ludwig Von Mises

The issue is that my book, and so many others, are not available for pre-order from Amazon. I hadn't realized how much that mattered for new authors. And how much Amazon is hurting us. — Edan Lepucki

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader. — Richard Gere

...living in daylights separation, together in night times dreams... — Bemy Wells

I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people. — David LaChapelle

I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket. — Mickey Edwards