"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."

-- Sam Abell

#Photography Quotes #Art Quotes #Desire Quotes

“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country.”
“My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.”
“Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.”
“If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently”
“Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that is when we are truly tested. When all that we have within is exposed, and we may no longer blame our inadequacies for our failure, but must instead depend upon our strengths to succeed ... that is when the measure of a man is taken, my boy.”

Source : James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.191, Simon and Schuster
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jul 22, 2012

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