"Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#Past Quotes #Age Quotes #Ill Quotes

“I'd like the photographs to potentially be meaningful to a wide range of people. They do not grow out of the reportage mode, this was always clear to me. Personal imaginations blend into each other and create our visual cultures. No one is a neutral observer of this field.”
“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”
“Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.”
“Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.”
“Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural basis of sentiment for utilitarian morality," but on the previous page he says, "if, as is my own belief, the moral feelings are not innate, but acquired, they are not for that reason less natural." It is with hesitation that I venture to differ from so profound a thinker, but it can hardly be disputed that the social feelings are instinctive or innate in the lower animals; and why should they not be so in man?”
“My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.”
“I am against government by crony.”
“It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.”

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