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“...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?”
Source : Abelardo Morell (1995). “A camera in a room: photographs”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.”
Source : Neal Asher (2009). “The Line of Polity”, p.261, Pan Macmillan
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
Source : J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.”
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“Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error.”
Source : "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 241), 1972.
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“We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.”
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“Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.”
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“Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.”
