Mario Testino Quotes

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

Mario Testino

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Control

• I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.

  

  Abraham Whipple
  • Money
  • Never
  • Prize

• I don't remember feeling love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • True
  • Hand
  • Struggle

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• I was the one who was always calling people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Always
  • Calling

• The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Writing
  • Weird

• Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Need

• Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Writing
  • May
  • Truth

• A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • First
  • Line
  • Theme

• There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Women
  • Morning

• I love a man bun.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Man
  • I Love

• I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Politics
  • Personal
  • Afford

• My attention span, when it comes to exercise, is pretty minimal.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Exercise

• I love art because it doesn't have rules like baseball. The only rule is to be good. That's the toughest thing to do.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Good
  • Art
  • Baseball

• Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

  

  John Madden
  • Time
  • Live

• I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Track

• I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.

  

  Meg Rosoff
  • People
  • Live
  • Struggle

• I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

  

  Mario Testino