"To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft."

-- John Szarkowski

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“When my eyes meet his gaze as we're sitting here staring at each other, time stops. Those eyes are piercing mine, and I can swear at this moment he senses the real me. The one without the attitude, without the facade[...]”

Source : Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
“For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.”
“I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.”
“You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him.”
“I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.”
“Help us show children around the world that we can make a difference together.”
“The thing about how that process works is that it's more about the editing and time for judging the ideas. Most pieces I publish each week have been around for months. This is a response to the beginning of the strip, when I was making them so quickly. I would just conceive a piece, finish it, and then the next day see it in the paper. That was when I was doing dailies four days a week.”
“No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.”

Source : John Dalton (1808). “A New System of Chemical Philosophy...”, p.212

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