David Bailey Quotes

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

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• Snobbery just inhibits you.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Just
  • Snobbery

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• 'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Song
  • Me

• I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Help
  • Position

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Moments

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Men
  • Bear

• I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not believe in happy endings. I wanted to read books which reflected life as I thought I knew it.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Trying

• A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

  

  Quintilian
  • Laugh
  • Too Much
  • Costs

• We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Sex
  • Fight
  • Equality

• I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hope
  • Drama
  • Hollywood

• I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Me

• Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Life
  • Simple

• You cannot win if you cannot run.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Sports
  • Win
  • Run

• Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Done
  • Art

• I had 13 weeks off and I would pack up the family and drive to some mountain retreat where we could be together and fish all day. I loved it. I needed it.

  

  Perry Como
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

  

  Thomas Ken
  • Father
  • Son
  • Blessing

• To come to peace with the moving on. It is a gift, in a way. We spend so much of our time fighting death, as we should. But sometimes the greatest gift we can give ourselves, and in turn the ones we love, is to know when to let go. To know when it is time—and to be at peace with that.

  

  Daisy Whitney
  • Time
  • Death
  • Peace

• The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps it will be the most urgent thing. Or the easiest. In fact, the most important thing probably isn't even on your agenda.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Today
  • Facts

• I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

  

  David Bailey