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
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• 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
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• 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

• I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Great
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  • Fear

• I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Space
  • Fly

• Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

  

  Dean Young
  • Enough
  • Wanted
  • Because

• Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

  

  George Henry Lewes
  • Character
  • Circumstances
  • Built

• When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Humorous

• 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