"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place. I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."

-- Sandra Cisneros

#Self Quotes #Trying Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age”

Source : August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”
“I think waterâ€™s, like, a really important thing.”
“When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting people as you go. Those are the people who made the places you go to anyway. All my memories of traveling - yeah, there are some buildings or landscapes that I'll always remember - but I still think I remember the people I meet more than any of that.”
“The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control.”
“If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.”
“Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.”
“I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?”

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