Herb Ritts Quotes

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

Herb Ritts

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• It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Great
  • America

• I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Lose

• Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli

• Idiocy: crudeness’ intellectual equivalent.

  

  Otto Weininger

• I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Road
  • Poverty
  • Financial

• The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Kids
  • American

• If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Work
  • Book
  • Sea

• The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.

  

  Erez Lieberman Aiden

• You gotta 'be' country music - you can't just sing it.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Music
  • Country

• I remember when my daughter, Marina, was born. The second I laid eyes on her, I was in love, and I had never felt that way before. I couldn't believe it.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Eyes

• When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

  

  Janet McTeer
  • Different
  • Character
  • Job

• Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

  

  James Connolly
  • Power
  • Democracy

• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  

  Bill Veeck
  • Attitude
  • Baseball
  • Theatre

• When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret Thatcher handbags, and I'll bang it on the table and demand my money back from the government for past bad services.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Past

• When I'm really purring it, I feel as if my whole left side - from knee to hip to shoulder - is turning behind me as I swing through the ball.

  

  Matt Kuchar

• I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York, where, frankly, most of show business really is.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Business
  • Chicago

• What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't normally have one. I couldn't go on it, because it would be, like, me being lazy, because I've definitely had my opportunities.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Lazy

• Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.

  

  Meg Ryan
  • Breakup

• Life had its seasons, and the season of letting go would always come, but there was something very beautiful in that, in the letting go. Leaves were always graceful as they floated away from the tree.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Life
  • Tree
  • Seasons

• Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often

  

  Roger Federer
  • Road
  • Careers
  • Court

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Lazy

• I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

  

  Herb Ritts