Elliott Erwitt Quotes
The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.
Elliott Erwitt
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
W. E. B. Du Bois
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
Arthur Daniel Miller
I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
Fay Wray
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Baldwin Spencer
There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
Dan Brown
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
Irwin Thomas
There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.
Sam Brownback
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
Damian Lewis
Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Frances Wright
We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
Yami Gautam
When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
Viktor Orban
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
Arthur Erickson
If someone says Wes Anderson is an auteur, I'll believe it 100 percent. Fine. He's an auteur, but I'm not.
Alex Garland
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
James Wilson
I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
Blake Michael
Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).
Janet Napolitano
The ratio of successful shots is one in God-knows-how-many. Sometimes you'll get several in one contact sheet, and sometimes it's none for days. But as long as you go on taking pictures, you're likely to get a good one at some point.
Elliott Erwitt
