Bellocq Quotes

#1. Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)

Michael Ondaatje

#2. The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

Natasha Trethewey

#3. You get up morning; the whole day is ahead of you! You must know that your day is full of endless possibilities, of endless dangers, of endless opportunities! For you, all heavens are open and all hells are open too! Every day is a road going to all the directions!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. Tales of triumph are my favourite.

S.A. Tawks

#5. Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#6. As a professional athlete, I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before. And not one of them has ever hurt me in a fist-fight, either. The only thing that has helped me is my skills and the only thing that hurt me is my opponent's skills.

Chael Sonnen

#7. if you already have genes predisposed to an autoimmune disease, and you eat grains and legumes, you're putting your hand on a trigger, and it's only a matter of time before you pull it and allow the damaged genes to rule.

Nicole Swenson

#8. I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

Brian Sandoval

#9. A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.

Norm MacDonald

#10. You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

Nicholas D'Agosto

#11. The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Fanny Crosby

#12. It's amazing how many times we need to go against our survival instincts to survive.

Susan Ee

#13. Science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

Yann Martel

#14. Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

Kamala Markandaya