Saul Leiter Quotes

I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.

Saul Leiter

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• School
• Serious
• Ugly
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• There has to be a global mission of human progress.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Mission

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Generation
  • Passionate
  • Empowering

• The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • War
  • Stupid

• I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Problems
  • Feminist

• I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Lose

• I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Believe
  • American
  • Think

• I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • Earth
  • Change

• Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • You
  • Like
  • Move

• Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Decision

• The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

  

  Jason Williams
  • Good
  • Bad

• Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Trying
  • Mirror

• There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

  

  Janet Erskine Stuart

• When people are like, 'College! Oh my God! Ultimate freedom!' I didn't feel that way. My roommates were loving hitting the town, but I wasn't as psyched about going to the frats.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • People
  • God
  • Freedom

• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Live

• Nothing is as strong as the heart of a volunteer.

  

  Jimmy Doolittle
  • Heart
  • Strong
  • Military

• When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Country
  • Children

• If you're contriving something, if you're making something up, it's not funny. You can tell. It's instant. It has to come from someplace real.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Goal
  • Steps
  • Plans

• I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Serious