Silalahi 2009 Quotes

#1. When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed.

Bill Evans

#2. I'm flattered by the offers I receive, but there's no real strategy to the way I choose what to do these days. If I'm in a good mood and have the time, I'm more likely to consider it. Often the photographer and team are important factors, too.

Christy Turlington

#3. Ghosts don't haunt people - their memories do.

Anonymous

#4. The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'

William Golding

#5. True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Sam Abell

#7. Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

Friedrich Schiller

#8. You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

John Podhoretz

#9. America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

#10. And now such a warm commotion, such busy love.

Alice Munro

#11. Even choosing the perfect dinner wine loses its earth-shattering importance if your guests happen to be cannibals, and you, the unsuspecting entree.

Lois Greiman

#12. In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Abraham Lincoln