Bellocq's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.

Zooey Deschanel

#3. We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

Sheri L. Dew

#4. Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

Sylvia Earle

#5. At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.

Guilherme Leal

#6. Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Eli Siegel

#7. Shamu and I have arrived safely in Costa Rica. He was stopped by airport security because he carries enough artillery in his pants pockets to construct a sawed-off shotgun. Evidently, he thought we were headed to Iraq.

Chelsea Handler

#8. Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

Michael Moore

#9. If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

Elizabeth Edwards

#10. If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

James Reston

#11. 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

#12. Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees.
[Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.]

Thomas Jackson