Visual Anthropology Quotes

#1. It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

Karin Slaughter

#2. Write code as if you had to support it for the rest of your life.

Kevlin Henney

#3. Man must not check reason by tradition, but contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not done since my ill-starred Tintagel honeymoon with Madame X.

David Mitchell

#5. In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.

Aleksandra Mir

#6. Edward Snowden may not be a Chinese mole, but he might as well be. He's just handed Beijing a major score, while the NSA struggles to pick up the pieces - and the rest of us pay the price in terms of future national security.

Arthur L. Herman

#7. It felt like she took off running without me. Her fingers clenched in on mine. Then relaxed, like she'd lost all her bones.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#8. We need to look closely at our relationships to see whether they are based primarily on mutual need or on mutual happiness.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. Now our kids must have the qualities of both an old aristocrat and a modern technocrat. No wonder they're so busy, and so frantic.

William Deresiewicz

#10. I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.

Jay Weatherill

#11. I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

Ashley Rickards

#12. A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

R. H. Tawney

#13. I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in visual arts because I sort of ignored my requirements. I think I was attracted to social anthropology because I liked to travel and was always interested in far-off places.

Darren Aronofsky

#14. In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.

Saul Alinsky