Shoesmith Cox Quotes & Sayings

A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective. — Irving Penn

This is the story of how my recklessness became my salvation. — Aspen Matis

I was still in high school when I decided I didn't want children. My somewhat twisted rationale was that I would never inflict childhood on anybody, especially not someone I loved. I never changed my mind. — Ann Patchett

We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for. — Peter DeGraaf

Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it. — Perry Brass

There is no excellence in archery without great labour. — Maurice Thompson

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it. — Vladimir Putin

The historian without his facts is rootless and futile; the facts without their historian are dead and meaningless. — E.H. Carr

I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think that, for me, my favorite thing to do is perform standup onstage. Everything else I do is for the exposure to do more stand-up onstage, and for the money, and for the health insurance. — Jen Kirkman

Who would back you in a race While defeat is in your face? — Orison Swett Marden

It's true, that in concrete battles the tyrants may have the upper hand in terms of tactics, weapons, ruthlessness. What our means of protest attempt to do is to move the battles towards abstract space. Force tyranny to defend itself in language. Weaken it with public opinion, with supreme court judgements, with debates and subversive curriculum. Take hold of the media, take hold of the printing presses and the newspapers, broadcast your views from pirate radio channels, spread the word. Don't do anything less than all you are capable of, and remember that history outlives you. It may not be until your grandchildren's days that they'll point back and say, there were sown the seeds of what we've now achieved. — Kamila Shamsie