I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock. — Michael Snow Copy Share Image
Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going to go… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to… — Tom Conti Copy Share Image
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“It's the shock of the thing, is what I'm saying, and my new and somewhat untested theory is that when something is… — Krystelle Bamford Copy Share Image
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved -… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Percy: Put your cap back on... get out! Annabeth: What? No! I'm not leaving you. Percy: I've got a plan. I'll distract… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it. — Emmanuel Levinas Copy Share Image
Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the… — Barbara Woodhouse Copy Share Image
Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole… — Luis de Camoes Copy Share Image
It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that… — Suki Kim Copy Share Image
I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion… — Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia Copy Share Image