Brian Skerry Quotes

Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

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• Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Never
  • Economic
  • Been

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

  

  Kate Mara
  • World
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Writing
  • Planning

• I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Kids
  • Always

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Society
  • Doing
  • Back

• If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Money
  • May
  • Strong

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • End
  • Plan

• The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Powerful
  • Unique
  • Criticism

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Life
  • Work
  • Friends

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Work
  • Important
  • Money

• I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa.

  

  Kevin Wilson
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Celebrity

• He ran a gas station down in St. Louis… No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great

• I was a dedicated, boring student. The last thing I wanted was to be a comedienne.

  

  Anne Meara

• Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.

  

  Brian Skerry
  • Long
  • Sea
  • Beach