Susan Campbell Bartoletti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

  • Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  • I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

  • Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

  • Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

  • It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

  • I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

  • I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  • Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.

  • It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.