Turbeville Quotes

#1. I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

Deborah Turbeville

#2. A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Thomas Hood

#3. Some choices can't be undone. Some wounds can't be healed.

Terri Osburn

#4. In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer ... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.

Deborah Turbeville

#5. A child ... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted.

Heinrich Boll

#6. Optimists envision the best that could happen.
Pessimists envision the worst that could happen.
Pragmatists envision the likely to happen.
The pessimist finds many reasons to quit.
The optimist finds many reasons to keep going.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. In my pictures, you never know, that's the mystery. It's just a suggestion and you leave it to the audience to put what they want on it. It's fashion in disguise.

Deborah Turbeville

#8. A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.

Deborah Turbeville

#9. You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you're afraid for the next moment, because it couldn't possibly be quite as good? That's what it felt like.

Jodi Picoult

#10. I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Magnus Carlsen

#11. All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Jenna Bush

#13. I destroy the image after I've made it, obliterate it a little so you never have it completely there.

Deborah Turbeville

#14. The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

David Ben-Gurion

#15. Light mayonnaise is like masturbation - it approximates the real thing but leaves you unfulfilled,
ultimately leading to fantasies about diving face-first into a big-ass jar of the real stuff.

Susan Donovan

#16. She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

Ayn Rand

#17. I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

Deborah Turbeville

#18. 'Armada d6' proves that some of the best games out there are still being playing on your tabletop.

Rob Manuel

#19. Kindness is true wisdom - not cleverness.

Debasish Mridha

#20. The Inspector stood up. Worried. Fonso Spalato fell silent.
'What's wrong?' he said, ready to jump out of his chair and start running.
'Do you mind if I whinny again?' the inspector politely asked

Andrea Camilleri

#21. At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

William Poundstone