"What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself."

-- Sophie Ristelhueber

#Bombs Quotes #Swallowing Quotes #Shock Quotes

“So the world is much more correlated than we give credit to. And so we see more of what Nassim Taleb calls "black swan events" - rare events happen more often than they should because the world is more correlated.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.”

Source : The 57th Street Review, January 1976.
“Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.”
“A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“I don't feel my job is on the line, but of course that might change.”
“I started eating healthier. I actually gave up fast food. I gave up candy and potato chips and everything else. I started watching what I ate.”
“How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?”
“Everybody saw my successful advertising and thought I was a big success. But, behind those successes were several failures that I had to learn from before I made it. I've always looked at failure as just another step you need to take to reach success.”

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