Ashcans Quotes

#1. Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

Weegee

#2. I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Martin Luther

#3. Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Charles Bukowski

#4. The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.

Rene Crevel

#6. There is no God. And that's His only Commandment.

Glen Duncan

#7. I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.

Stephen Colbert

#8. People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.

Bryant McGill

#9. Allison's eyes dart between me and the knives. Yeah, lady, a couple of hours in jail and I've moved from destruction of property to sociopath.

Katie McGarry

#10. Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.

Tarryn Fisher

#11. Fascinating," I said, turning toward Ian. "You never told me Simon went to Oxford."
"Simon went to Oxford, Sophie.

Fisher Amelie

#12. Aside from that, however, Rigg didn't mind being ugly. In fact, she liked herself and just pretended that she didn't when she was around other women. For there was nothing so criminal as a woman liking herself.

Ash Gray

#13. there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

#14. When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

Amy Poehler

#15. Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. ... she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah's Witness: uninvited and tireless.

Steve Toltz