Samdee Quotes & Sayings

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation standing higher than the wall of a temple, over the great river I could see through a sombre gap glittering, glittering, as it flowed broadly by without a murmur. All this was great, expectant, mute, while the man jabbered about himself. — Joseph Conrad

One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there. — John Cage

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years. — Alexander Haig

I use the camera as a dumb copying device that only serves to document whatever phenomenon appears before it through the conditions set by a system. No esthetic choices are possible. Other people often make the photographs. It makes no difference. — Douglas Huebler

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints. — Douglas Huebler

I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. — Elliott Abrams

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian. — Ryan Stiles

Why look to far ahead, when there was nothing to see but dark clouds? — Catherine Jinks

We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face. — Chuck D

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. — Fran Lebowitz

I was only going to say," said Scrooge's nephew, "that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office or his dusty chambers. I mean to give him the same chance every year, whether he likes it or not, for I pity him. He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of it - I defy him - if he finds me going there in good temper, year after year, and saying, 'Uncle Scrooge, how are you?' If it only puts him in the vein to leave his poor clerk fifty pounds, that's something. — Charles Dickens

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is. — Sebastian Junger

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest. — Ambrose Bierce

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say. — Sam Kinison