Banasiak Monika Quotes

#1. I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.

Roy DeCarava

#2. Please you can never compare to me, all these b****es is scared of me. I am who they couldn't even dare to be.

Nicki Minaj

#3. Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

Robert Henri

#4. If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

A. N. Wilson

#5. Writing analogies are as abundant as ants at a picnic. We love nothing better than a good analogy, a "life-is-like-this" on the page. I breathe and out pops another analogy. As of this moment, I am sole owner of 1,643 analogies.

Chila Woychik

#6. European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

Virginia Postrel

#7. Slavery is back
but never went away

Eve Ensler

#8. What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

David Puttnam

#9. And others are proud of their modicum of righteousness, and for the sake of it do violence to all things: so that the world is drowned in their unrighteousness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work ... But, that's not writing . That's typing.

Truman Capote

#11. The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

May Sarton

#12. Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.

Sinclair B. Ferguson