Martin Parr Quotes

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

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• Now is the only thing that exists.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Now
  • Only
  • The Only Thing

• Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Alone

• I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Opinion
  • Design
  • Personality

• We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Changes
  • Ignore
  • Environmental

• I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Never

• Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • True
  • Control
  • Military

• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • American
  • History
  • Night

• A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Good
  • Great
  • Player

• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Love
  • For Her

• Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Growing
  • Space

• We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• I grew up watching movies and television, and one day when I was really young I told my mom I wanted to become an actor, and she was really supportive and got me involved in local theater and commercials. From there I moved up to auditioning for movies and television.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Actor

• I feel like everything I wear is a favorite thing. I wouldn't wear something if I didn't love it, and I wouldn't just wear something because someone put me in it.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Love
  • Me
  • Feel

• The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Society
  • Value
  • Revolution

• I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Scary

• 'By god', says he, 'I think the Devil shits Dutchmen'

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • God
  • Devil

• The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • March

• There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Health

• I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Work
  • Together
  • Guy

• Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Want
  • Story

• Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Parents
  • Simple
  • Prayer

• He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Love
  • Choices
  • Courses

• The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

  

  Martin Parr