Saul Leiter Quotes
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.
Saul Leiter
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
Barbra Streisand
Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. Ammons
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
Dan Rather
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
Bai Ling
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
Laura Linney
When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
Frances Mayes
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
Randall Jarrell
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
Candis Cayne
Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
Becky Lynch
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
Ed Gillespie
Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
Randy Lerner
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
Zooey Deschanel
I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.
Edmund Phelps
It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
Jack McDevitt
If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
Matt Lauer
