"God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work."

“Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.”

“My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.”

“The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.”

Source : Nassau William Senior, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner (1856). “American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech”, p.143

“Healthy body image is not something that youre going to learn from fashion magazines.”

“Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.”

“She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...”

Source : Barbara Pym (2015). “Quartet in Autumn: Picador Classic”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

“I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.”

“Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.”