Akemi Soryuin Quotes

#1. When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.

Tony Dungy

#2. The more you photograph, the more you realize what can and what can't be photographed. You just have to keep doing it.

Eliot Porter

#3. There was nothing to do about him. It was Easter Sunday and the Fascists were advancing toward the Ebro. It was a gray overcast day with a low ceiling so their planes were not up. That and the fact that cats know how to look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever have.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

Carlos Fuentes

#5. People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.

Watchman Nee

#6. We hold on so tightly, because we're terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.

Yasmin Mogahed

#7. I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.

Dan Shechtman

#8. I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.

Pablo Picasso

#9. TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

Peter Scott

#10. America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

Ringo Starr