Al Mansur Ariana Quotes

#1. If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago and I still looked like hell.

Junot Diaz

#3. In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.

Chevy Stevens

#4. Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.

John Muir

#5. I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Dag Hammarskjold

#6. I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

Ansel Adams

#7. To drink, to get drunk, is to lower yourself on purpose for the sake of good fellowship.

Larissa MacFarquhar

#8. I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

David Nicholls

#9. Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Peter R. Grant

#10. My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side of the world and everything that's going on.

Ali Lohan

#11. Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Alex Cox

#12. I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

Adolf Eichmann

#13. Being an activist and an artist - those two things should go together. You should allow the artistic sensibility to control some of your activism, but never should it be allowed to paralyze you.

Bill Ayers

#14. Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself.

John Hutton

#15. Maerad, our world is full of sorrow and evil," he said. "But there is also beauty and light and love. You must remember that.

Alison Croggon