Pickings 2018 Quotes

#1. Connor has always been light to her. Pure light and hope in the face of sorrow and despair.

Andrea Cremer

#2. Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

Elie Wiesel

#3. Photographs are detonators. They explode in us. We are the gaze as well as the gazed-at. The observer and the observed.

Edmundo Desnoes

#4. I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

Erik Larson

#5. I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes

Mark Zuckerberg

#6. You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

Paul McCartney

#7. For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

Moshe Kupferman

#8. The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Aimee Mann

#9. With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

Jeff Ross

#10. I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.

Pascal Mercier

#11. I was not born to wait.

Gwenda Bond

#12. Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

Billy Cannon

#13. And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them.

G.R. Reader

#14. We have an idea that if something we're doing isn't actually earning money, or spending it, then it's completely worthless. But if you start to work less, you can actually start to give more to society, but on a local level.

Tom Hodgkinson