"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."

-- Ken Burns

#The End Of The Day Quotes #Pearls Quotes #Layers Quotes

“He [Andy Warhol] engaged people and I think all of that is what helped keep him keyed in to the times beyond all of the celebrity stuff that was going on around him. He was much more like a fan than a celebrity himself.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”
“The apparel oft proclaims the man.”
“In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.”
“Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”
“The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.”
“... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.”
“People have been calling us, guys on other teams, a few of the other Twins”

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