Sekula Library Quotes

#1. The photographic image ... is a message without a code.

Roland Barthes

#2. Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.

Travis J. Dahnke

#3. The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

#4. That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology ... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins.

Nadine Gordimer

#5. I will get stronger. I will return.

Gabrielle Giffords

#6. Those who don't believe in the spiritual foundations of their faith, who only pay lip service to the outer shell of their religious rituals, cannot be tolerant of others.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

Harry S. Truman

#8. I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry ...

William Butler Yeats

#9. The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

Shannen Doherty

#10. Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Edmund Burke

#11. There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

Andrew Young

#12. If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

Annette Bening

#13. I followed you.'
I saw no one.'
That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

Arthur Conan Doyle