Mario Testino Quotes

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

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• 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 liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

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

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Need

• We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Day
  • Focused
  • Facebook

• 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 didn't do particularly well with girls at school. I was very shy. I'm not saying that was the only reason I didn't do well with them, but I just didn't.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • School

• When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as human beings. And I love language.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• White folks may let you in their country clubs to play golf, invite you out to dinner, take you out to play tennis, but when it comes to dividing up the money, that's a whole 'nother story.

  

  Marion Barry
  • Up
  • Country
  • Money

• One of the great rules of hockey is: On the Stanley Cup, all germs are healthy.

  

  George Vecsey
  • Healthy
  • Rules
  • Hockey

• A statute of 1344 shows some weakness; but the statute of 1391 is memorable, not merely as being the Mortmain Code of three centuries, but as extending the rule of mortmain to all bodies, religious and secular alike, having perpetual succession. For this extension marks the definite recognition by English Law of the corporation, or, as it is sometimes called, the 'fictitious person' - the legal personality which is not restricted to the limits of individual life. The gradual evolution of this institution is one of the most fascinating chapters in legal history...

  

  Edward Jenks
  • History
  • Rule
  • Weakness

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

  

  Mario Testino