"We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest."

-- May Sarton

#Honesty Quotes #Honest Quotes #Being Honest Quotes

“My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.”
“I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.”
“Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.”
“As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the ticket. Think of Spiro Agnew's foot-in-mouth disease; Tom Eagleton's medical history; the real estate holdings of Geraldine Ferraro's husband; the unbearable lightness of Dan Quayle; Sarah Palin's reading list.”
“My pleasure was to copy, not to create.”
“I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.”

Source : "Interview with Architect Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Philip Nobel, www.architecturaldigest.com. March 31, 2013.
“I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”

Source : Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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