"There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)"

-- Bill Eppridge

#Eye Quotes #Focus Quotes #Presidential Quotes

“The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven for both man and animal, for both thick and strong, germinated the wheat, swelled the furrows with fecund mud and brought forth the buds in the orchards. And it is I who empowered these moist espousals, I the great Aphrodite ....”
“Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 16, 2014
“I would rather lose than win the way you guys [Republicans] did.”

Source : Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
“The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.”
“What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.340
“I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them.”
“I know when I'm onstage, I don't think about how it looks, I just concentrate on really feeling what I hear. But I totally know I look like Gollum when I perform, so it's cool.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 15, 2013.
“George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. We gather here today and we call ourselves simply Americans.”

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