Yan Xishan Quotes

#1. That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."
I never wanted to leave his side-my sure song for so long. Now? His eyes are stone changed. Just looking at them hurts my heart.

Norma Fox Mazer

#2. People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

Catherine Bailey

#3. Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Gertrude Stein

#4. This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

Burning Spear

#5. When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward

Paulo Coelho

#6. You just want mixed blood because you took one look at a certain woman and all brain matter went dead, Fen accused.
Zev didn't open his eyes or stop feeding. She did make an impression.

Christine Feehan

#7. Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

Leonard Nimoy

#8. I know when I am well off. You had better come up to me.' 'You know I can't.' 'Of course you can't. You can only go down and down.' 'Are you trying to insult me?' 'Yes, but it's very difficult.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#9. I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

Betty White

#10. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.

Christopher Poindexter

#11. I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

Judith McNaught

#12. You fancy you to be! He

Oscar Wilde

#13. No, no. By all means, lead on. Nothing gets the blood pumping more than hunting down the biggest threat to the realm and deciding we'll just wing it.

Elizabeth Carlton

#14. You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

Ronald Reagan

#15. In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

Graciela Iturbide