"Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property."

-- Beaumont Newhall

#World Quotes #Events Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.”
“If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.12, U of Nebraska Press
“People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.”

Source : "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who?". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.
“Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.”
“For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.”
“If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.137, Kent State University Press
“Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.”
“When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.”

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