"We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen."

“Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.”

“It's very hard for me to relax.”

“I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green.”

“We like to think that the fate of the Earth and the fate of human worlds are the same thing, but we're not as important as that.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“When silence reaches an ultimate point, the light penetrates everywhere.”

Source : Hsuan Hua (2012). “The Chan Handbook: Talks About Meditation”, p.26, Buddhist Text Translation Society

“Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.”

“Pastoral theology and care helps people look deeper at the intersection between their inherited religious traditions and their current life situations. From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.”

“Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.”

Source : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books