Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really w...
MARTIN PARR In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work i...
MARTIN PARR Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the...
MARTIN PARR With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
ELLEN PARR When I fly British Airways, I can't help but read the free Daily Mail, which makes me glad I am ...
MARTIN PARR I pride myself in being an aficionado of the British seaside. Throughout my career, I have visited a...
MARTIN PARR Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made t...
BEN PARR There is a proven model with putting ads on the site, but it has to be in volume.
BARRY PARR When you're in the mall, facing a human with a purchase in your hand, you're a lot less likely to dr...
BARRY PARR Even the most intensive users of newspapers and magazines spend less time reading these publications...
BARRY PARR The challenge is that the interface on a cell phone is so poor that anything you can do to reduce th...
BARRY PARR They are looking for certain red flags, verifying addresses, looking for certain behaviors that are ...
BARRY PARR Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that...
MARTIN PARR My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of so...
MARTIN PARR My biggest television weakness is 'Dragons' Den.'
MARTIN PARR Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.
MARTIN PARR Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of r...
MARTIN PARR Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting t...
BEN PARR When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they have...
MARTIN PARR Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I d...
MARTIN PARR If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictu...
MARTIN PARR I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
MARTIN PARR I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of ...
MARTIN PARR This doesn't change the competitive landscape, but it does add some long-needed features for members...
BARRY PARR Few sites have garnered the kind of trust and loyalty that brands like Coca-Cola have. Portals that ...
BARRY PARR AOL customers bought $2.5 billion worth of goods last year. What that means is a lot of transactions...
BARRY PARR I can see this being interesting for professionals who might be tracking stories about a company, fo...
BARRY PARR The portal business is all about stealing things from the competition. Go hasn't done anything that ...
BARRY PARR Still, I'm pretty positive about the site. A lot of their stuff is interesting.
BARRY PARR If someone wants to know more about the flavors, soil and vintage, you can go on. But I don't think ...
RAJAT PARR It means that the number of people keeping their eyes on the skies is greatly diminished... I put it...
CHRIS PARR Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not...
MARTIN PARR We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and prof...
MARTIN PARR I feel some of the City Council has lost the concept that they are the employer and the city manager...
CHARLES PARR My opponent is a lifetime employee of the government.
CHARLES PARR My connection with Jesse and Linda is purely professional. I'm mean, we're friends, but I didn't kno...
CHARLES PARR The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
MARTIN PARR It's just a great fundraiser. The employees and visitors seem to like it. I'm excited to have them c...
BRENDA PARR It seems they have a better selection. There are a variety of books here. It looks real good.
BRENDA PARR We've been having them for a while. We try to have two or three of them a year.
BRENDA PARR In general, a lot of the predicted adoption of fancier, so-called rich media ads just hasn't happene...
BARRY PARR In general, a lot of the predicted adoption of fancier, so-called rich media ads just hasn't happene...
BARRY PARR There are no karaoke dreamers on this show.
CHRIS PARR I addressed the tax issue straight up without any fluff. The questions were asked and I answered the...
CHARLES PARR More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be cons...
BEN PARR When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to p...
MARTIN PARR That's just where we ended up. Both teams graduated some people and I think it's a tribute to both t...
DON PARR Our girls thought that play was off-side. The puck had cleared the zone, and when they scored we wer...
DON PARR The experience paid off. We had a couple lapses, but we were able to come back.
DON PARR Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn&...
MARTIN PARR The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.
MARTIN PARR If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food ...
MARTIN PARR People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.
DELIA PARR It?s the same old problem, we refuse to be patient and disciplined on offense. A lot of it was due t...
DAN PARR I liked it when they were pressing us full court. We broke through that. But in our half-court set w...
DAN PARR Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues thro...
BEN PARR Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, no...
MARTIN PARR I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
MARTIN PARR The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying int...
BEN PARR There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet th...
BEN PARR Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
MARTIN PARR For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring sho...
MARTIN PARR I'm proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.
BEN PARR Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at an...
BEN PARR Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will ...
BEN PARR What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship b...
BEN PARR Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie...
BEN PARR The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
BEN PARR Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someo...
BEN PARR This is not the kind of market in which anyone would want to put a premium on the company.
MARK PARR We can teach them a skill and they can teach others.
LES PARR We want to be part of the community, we want to live with the Rwandan community to bring the people ...
LES PARR I think it would be silly to not have a chat. He fits our criteria. He's just captained a grand fina...
PETER PARR The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
MRS. JAMIESON What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one fra...
MRS. JAMIESON He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow.
MRS. MANLEY He says anything that first comes into his mouth.
MRS. MANLEY Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
MRS. MANLEY Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
MRS. MANLEY Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
MRS. MANLEY Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MRS. MANLEY Acerra always drinks till dawn.
MRS. MANLEY A novice always behaves with propriety.
MRS. MANLEY No time like the present.
MRS. MANLEY A woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.
MRS. EUSDEN Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.
MRS. CUNNINGHAM You appreciate now what David Beckham goes through - on a larger scale.
MRS JONES At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have alway...
MRS. OLIPHANT The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village archit...
MRS. OLIPHANT Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MRS. OLIPHANT As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everyth...
MRS. OLIPHANT Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished a...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
MRS HUBBARD DAVIS One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee And cherish'd thine image for years; Thou hast ta...
MRS. DAVID PORTER Want, the mistress of invention.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for othe...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?
MRS. SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
MRS. HUMPHREY WARD The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within ...
MRS. ANNA JAMESON Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they don’t do it in the street...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has ...
MRS. ERNEST AMES Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest, Till vernal suns and v...
MRS. MARY TIGHE Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of...
MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL Piety in art--poetry in art--Puseyism in art--let us be careful how we confound them.
MRS. ANNA JAMESON Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boy! Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy; Dreams cannot p...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS A young Apollo, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of strife, Magnificently unprepare...
MRS. FRANCES MACDONALD CORNFORD It is to hope, though hope were lost.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee-- E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; ...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?-...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Thank you, pretty cow, that made Pleasant milk to soak my bread.
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) In the busy haunts of men.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified W...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods against a stormy...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD The man who forms the habit of beginning without finishing has simply formed the habit of failure....
MRS. CHARLES E. COWMAN Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it...
ANNE TAYLOR (MRS. GILBERT) Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouc...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own wit...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Rome, Rome, thou art no more As thou hast been! On thy seven hills of yore Thou sat'st a...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS O beautiful rainbow;--all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night; Heave...
MRS. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes ...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Man is the nobler growth our realms supply And souls are ripened in our northern sky.
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave, In a vale in the land of Moab, Th...
MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle's ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There is none, In all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, sa...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS But hark! what shriek of death comes in the gale, And in the distant ray what glimmering sail ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain! Though not f...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Lightnings, that show the vast and foamy deep, The rending thunders, as they onward roll, The ...
MRS. ANN WARD RADCLIFFE I come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The wind, the wandering wind Of the golden summer eyes-- Whence is the thrilling magic O...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS Fair Venus shines Even in the eye of day; with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a t...
MRS. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Thou hast fair forms that move With queenly tread; Thou hast proud fanes above Thy might...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...
MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD The stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS There shall be no more snow No weary noontide heat, So we lift our trusting eyes From th...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS If things on earth may be to heaven resembled, It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
MRS. APHRA JOHNSON BEHN They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart."
MRS. PAUL M. ELL. She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, "It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere."
OPHELIA G. BROWNING (MRS. ARTHUR P. ADAMS, MRS. T.E. BURROUGHS) Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science tak...
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "we do much for posterity; I ...
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON MONTAGU (MONTAGUE) It seems to be the fashion nowadays for a girl to behave as much like a man as possible. Well, I won...
MRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY Prevention is better than cure.
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY Sickness is a belief, to be annihilated by the divine Mind.
MRS. MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY Though outwardly a gloomy shroud, The inner half of every cloud Is bright and shining: I...
ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER (MRS. A.L. FELKIN) Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN) What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet, ...
FRANCES ANNE "FANNY" KEMBLE (MRS. BUTLER) I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who nev...
MRS. FREDERIC J. FAULKS ("THEODOSIA PICKERING GARRISON") Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The buttercups across the field Made sunshine rifts of splendor.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be; His ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctia...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Sweet April-time--O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and r...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) With faces like dead lovers who died true.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Those Rooks, dear, from morning till night, They seem to do nothing but quarrel and fight, And...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born t...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our eart...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) To-morrow is, ah, whose?
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the Nightingale: "Hail, all hail! Pierce with thy trill the dark, Like a glitt...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the sky-poised Lark: "Hark--hark! Thy note is more loud and free Because there...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the tim...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave the...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I took the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely ...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) I said to the brown, brown thrush: "Hush, hush! Through the wood's full strains I hear T...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK)