Tirpak Agency Quotes & Sayings

One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it can be witnessed, recounted, and replayed like the launching of a rocket. War is a human activity far too large to be contained in the experience of a single reporter in a single place and time in any meaningful way. When it comes, it happens to everyone. Everything is in its path. Yet this is the allure of war reporting, the chance of acquiring some personal mother lode of truth to beam back to the living rooms of a waiting nation. The fear that comes from reporting on a war is as much a fear of missing this mother load as it is of being injured or killed in battle, and it sets reporters apart from the people who have to fight wars. Soldiers have their own agonies to think about as a battle approaches. Missing the war is not generally one of them. — John Hockenberry

I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road. — Samuel Beckett

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further. — Francis Bacon

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution. — Henry Kissinger

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics. — G.H. Hardy

I'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry — Ntozake Shange

What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical. — Frank Herbert

The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic. — R.W. Grant

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else. — Ann Voskamp

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods. — Andrew Mason

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered. — Nicholas D. Kristof

You must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing! — Gustave Flaubert

I love the passion you go through while you're creating. — LeRoy Neiman

The [Iranian] government grapples with more important issues and we can maybe say that these films don't really exist for them. It's not about whether they like it or don't; it's just not very important to them. — Abbas Kiarostami