Shashin Quotes

#1. When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan - at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

#2. In the glass she wore an expression of tense melancholy, for she had come to the depressing conclusion, since the arrival of the Dalloways, that her face was not the face she wanted, and in all probability never would be.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'

Scott Rudin

#4. You'll never know what you're capable of if you never take the first step and try.

Ikish Mullens

#5. History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Bret Easton Ellis

#6. Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus

#7. You create your own masterpiece as your actions draw pictures of your life canvas.

Debasish Mridha

#8. People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

Jean-Luc Godard

#9. Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered; it is accepting them.

Alan Cohen

#10. Referring to Palestinian refugees: We must do everything in our power to ensure that they never return.

David Ben-Gurion

#11. Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

Saint Ignatius

#12. I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.

Olly Murs

#13. When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

Orson Scott Card

#14. He was the picture of innocence and a masterpiece of temptation.

Wendy Beck