Petterson Museum Quotes & Sayings

Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I. — Lucy R. Lippard

I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories. — Shimon Attie

If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries — Ian Botham

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera. — Jon Gordon

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it. — Walter Scott

Fuck you, whore, I am not a mean drunk . — Jamie McGuire

Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours — Kate Atkinson

I probably haven't even seen ten of the films I've done. I don't get a joy out of it, and I don't go to the movies. — Robert Sean Leonard

Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime. — George Will

I'm very aware that just driving blindly towards money won't get me anything. I drive blindly towards making the world a better place. — Jill Soloway

Eugenie, my sweet, your outraged protests are adorable, but they only continue to slow us down. If you want me to help you, then let me. If you don't, then take me to one of those places where human women wear revealing clothing and quickly lose their virtue through alcohol. — Richelle Mead

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school. — Andrea Mitchell