Shigehisa Torrance Quotes & Sayings

My definition of fear is that it's a constant companion, a sidekick, riding you like a watch, going in and out of the days. I don't live like that anymore. The fact that I'm sixty-three has something to do with it. What I used to fear was growing old - not the aches and pains part or the what-have-I-done-with-my-life part or the threat of illness, none of that. I just couldn't imagine what my life would be like without the option of looking good. — Abigail Thomas

To us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from # photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle. — Susan Sontag

Starbucks is in my blood. It is such a part of me that letting it unravel simply was not an option. — Howard Schultz

There is chaos behind the civility, of course. — Edward Albee

Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons. — John Bowlby

I've never seen someone work for a salary. — Sophia Amoruso

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the world and derive a totally different conclusion. — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them? — Blake Mycoskie

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself. — Pat Conroy