Moyez G. Vassanji Quotes

No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.

Moyez G. Vassanji

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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Together
  • Magic
  • London

• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Book
  • Freedom
  • Kind

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • Education
  • Friend

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Love
  • Couple
  • Born

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Brainy

• At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • New
  • New York
  • Festival

• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Wood

• I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Poetry
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Life
  • Trust

• Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Jesus
  • Persons
  • Christ

• No amount of photography could replace the memories of a life lived, of lives observed and known, of lives elaborated in the mind and on the page.

  

  Moyez G. Vassanji
  • Life
  • Memories
  • Photography