Philippe Halsman Quotes

In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

Philippe Halsman

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• It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Legacy

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Kindness

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• We run to win, not just to be in the race.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Win
  • Race
  • Run

• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Real
  • Team
  • Learning

• A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Himself

• Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Bless

• As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Concrete

• I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Silly

• Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Bed

• It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • People
  • Being
  • Stadium

• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Never
  • Say

• We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Work
  • War
  • Cold

• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Modern

• If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Stop
  • Rapper

• A light broke in upon my brain, -It was the carol of a bird;It ceased, and then it came again,The sweetest song ear ever heard.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Song
  • Light
  • Brain

• The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Success
  • Science

• I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Artist

• Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Emotion

• The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything.

  

  Mike Nichols
  • Risk
  • Knows
  • Differences

• In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

  

  Philippe Halsman
  • Goals
  • Essence
  • Humorous