Unsettling Truths Quotes

#1. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world.

Richard Misrach

#2. You'll kiss a lizard, but not me," Matt whispered. "There's something seriously wrong with you."
"He's cuter than you.

Amy Lignor

#3. People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.

Eli Broad

#4. Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

Joanne Greenberg

#5. I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

Shelley Winters

#6. Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession.

Stephen Potter

#7. It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.

Erica Packer

#8. According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,' and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a 'sex-addict.

Ilana Mercer

#9. Am I very late?" she asked the Chief, smiling at him. She might just as well have asked if she was ugly. "No!" the Chief said.

J.D. Salinger

#10. You can feel for almost everyone, but only one person can you love.

Moffat Machingura

#11. Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Eben Alexander

#12. I want to be something special. I want to be known as a great female basketballer.

Lauren Jackson

#13. I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

David Bowie

#14. When we get at least six hours of daily social time, it increases our wellbeing and minimizes stress and worry. The six hours includes time at work, at home, on the telephone, talking to friends, sending e-mail, and other communication.

Tom Rath