"Beautiful woman wrapped in chadors, with huge machine guns in their hands. Brilliant, shocking, amazingly contradictory images. They compelled me to deeply investigate these ideas."

-- Shirin Neshat

#Beautiful Quotes #Gun Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory (1968). “King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales”
“No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.”
“Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.”
“Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.”
“I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.”
“College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.”
“Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.”
“No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind.”

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