Taptek Quotes & Sayings

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something. — Saul Leiter

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive. — Wayne Wonder

At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever form we can get it. I suspect that if anyone other than Jesus (Krishna, say, or Buddha) were suddenly put forward as being due for a second coming, millions in our postsecular society would embrace such a thing uncritically, leaving Enlightenment rationalism huffing and puffing in the rear. We are a puzzled and confused generation, embracing any and every kind of nonrationalism that may offer us a spiritual shot in the arm while lapsing back into rationalism (in particular, the old modernist critiques) whenever we want to keep traditional or orthodox Christianity at bay. — N. T. Wright

He had always believed that people create their own destiny, through hard work and perseverance almost anything could be accomplished. — Maximiliano Febles

We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave? — Ernest Gaines

When Elvis was there, they were stopping everything. Elvis had the moment for real. While I'm here, its not all about 50 Cent, but it was all about Elvis. — Curtis Jackson

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before ... — Leo Tolstoy

Like the wheeling of stars,' muttered the Count as he paced.
"That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only does every last one of them demand its moment on the stage, it insists upon making a soliloquy full of weighty pauses and artful hesitations and then leaps into an encore at the slightest hint of applause. — Amor Towles

No. I cannot let him control me.
You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet. — Marie Lu

My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets. — Peter Eisenman

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. — Heywood Broun

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from. — Anthony Carmona