Sara Sheridan Quotes

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• My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • World
  • Law
  • Garden

• It's not the average people that come to my show.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Show
  • Average

• I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Start
  • Industry
  • Late

• They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Write

• Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

  

  Doris Day
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Get

• A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Style
  • Powerful
  • Hurt

• Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Military
  • Plan
  • Honey

• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • Universe
  • Brain

• I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Looks
  • Photograph
  • Photographer

• All things are photographable.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • All Things

• Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Silence
  • Mirror
  • Reflection

• I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.

  

  Erwin Blumenfeld
  • Photograph
  • Amateur

• I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.

  

  Ed Gass-Donnelly
  • Memory
  • Photograph
  • Frozen

• The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

  

  David Hurn
  • Moment
  • Photograph
  • Particular

• In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean to say that Islam is backward; I mean to say that there are certain experiences that it hasn't gone through. Christianity had the great religious wars of the 17th century. Islam, fortunately for the Muslims, did not have that. Christianity worked out a system of toleration. Islam was always more tolerant of Christendom.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Remember
  • Experiences
  • Toleration

• Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

  

  Sara Sheridan
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