Stellata Norman Quotes & Sayings

I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and silk gloves. Perhaps what happens when you press the shutter is an intuitive act infused with all you have learned. — Graciela Iturbide

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction. — Alveda King

I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together. — Uzo Aduba

I was very aware that the army was here to kill something hiding out (and I think the other black folks felt this as well) not only on the mountain, but inside my heart as well. — Terry Bisson

I'm a Capricorn, actually. — Bill Keller

Being proud of your nationality is like congratulating yourself for inheriting money. — Dov Davidoff

To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp and wound the handle till the pressure built. I drank coffee in titrated doses. It was a tricky business, requiring the finely tuned judgment of a skilled anesthesiologist. There was a tiny range within which coffee was effective, short of which it was useless, and beyond which, fatal. — Annie Dillard

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD. — Sathya Sai Baba

To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of photographic reportage. And in the thousandth of a second that follows, to take the photo of what one has seen - that is the practical side of reportage. — Martin Munkacsi

I had a dream I was walking down the street and didn't have to hold anyone's hand — Kelly Oxford

Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works. — John Updike

The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on - only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall. — Christopher Hitchens

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. — Aeschylus