Visscher Specialty Quotes & Sayings

Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. — John Le Carre

Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly ... does my picture of a cobweb in the rain represent a decisive moment? The exposure time was probably three or four minutes. That's a pretty long moment. I would say the decisive moment in that case was the moment in which I saw this thing and decided I wanted to photograph it. — Paul Strand

I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. — Vince Cable

I am going to add a cold beer. Why not a bottle of whiskey? Because my story is cheap and cannot afford such props. Goddamn, even my imagination is not wealthy enough to order a bottle of Jack! — Plamen Chetelyazov

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible. — Michael Coren

If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. — Alan Shearer

The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream. — Donna Lynn Hope

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

P244 — Veronica Roth

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot. — G-Eazy

Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. — Augustine Of Hippo

In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine. — Connie Francis