Saul Leiter Quotes

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

Saul Leiter

• Philosophy
• Possibility
• Photograph
• Cameras
• Endless

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• It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Time
  • Great
  • Man

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Years
  • Right
  • Leg

• I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Rock
  • Wrestling
  • Favorite

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Game
  • Beginning
  • Unique

• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Song
  • Strange

• We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Write
  • Hollywood
  • Asian

• Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Country
  • Government
  • Used

• A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Work
  • Period

• It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

  

  Francine Busby
  • People
  • Done
  • Business

• In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there's no need - given the massive amount of money that's coming in now from television rights, there's no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Money
  • Football
  • Television

• My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Practice
  • Win
  • Philosophy

• I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people who I photograph, I just go, along, banging away. So I don't really have a relationship with them. A lot of people think it's very important. I don't. It's like love at first sight. I have an impression when I see somebody, and I have an idea of who they are, or what they are.

  

  William Klein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Ability
  • Natural
  • Special

• I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Philosophy
  • Possibility
  • Photograph