Pics On Birthday Quotes & Sayings

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway. — Jane Campion

The purpose of the bayonet training, Sergeant Gerheim explains, is to awaken our killer instincts. The killer instinct will make us fearless and aggressive, like animals. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exist to be devoured by the strong. Every Marine must pack his own gear. Every Marine must be the instrument of his own salvation. It's hard, but there it is. — Gustav Hasford

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and have not outlived you yet. Welcome, old projects, and old loves, however fleeting, to your nooks among the steadier lights that burn around us — Charles Dickens

Ignominy is universally acknowledged to be a worse punishment than death . . . It would seem strange that ignominy should ever have been adopted as a milder punishment than death, did we not know that the human mind seldom arrives at truth up on any subject till it has first reached the extremity of error. - BENJAMIN RUSH, "AN ENQUIRY INTO THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS UPON CRIMINALS, AND UPON SOCIETY," MARCH 9, 1787 — Jon Ronson

Travis let his knees give way, sending her tumbling to the floor.
"Ouch!" she squealed, looking up at Travis.
"America's a friend of mine. You need to find another lap, Lex. — Jamie McGuire

I think about photographs as being full, or empty. You picture something in a frame and it's got lots of accounting going on in it-stones and buildings and trees and air - but that's not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there. — Joel Meyerowitz

I know that my look is more 'toothpaste model' as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles. — Margot Robbie

Prove the nay-sayers wrong ... Leave being average to others ... You could be the one who changes the way the world spins — Frank Giampaolo

Nothing like high school. It's a lot of pressure. And . . . I didn't think you'd be so far away." I — Jenny Han

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws

I am a free-willed, free-thinking, non-conforming subversive using the powers of intellect and common sense to not only question my environment but search for answers to those questions in order to share that knowledge with those around me for a better tomorrow. — R. Wolf Baldassarro

The art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life ... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal. — Henry Miller

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves — Motsoko Pheko