"It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war--when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness."

-- Rebecca Latimer Felton

#War Quotes #Anger Quotes #Fall Quotes

“Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.”
“One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.”
“In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.”
“Most musicians don't write about being a musician cause most musicians aren't writers.”

Source : "Destroyer". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.
“I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?”
“No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full.”

Source : Epitaph he made for himself. "Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age". Book by Will Durant, 2001.
“I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.”

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