Yousuf Karsh Quotes

The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.

Yousuf Karsh

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• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Amazing
  • Win
  • Destiny

• Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.

  

  Ma Long
  • Experience
  • View
  • Dubai

• I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Grandfather
  • Blues
  • Did

• I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Time
  • School
  • Game

• The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • You
  • Know
  • More

• Anonymous comments? You're not in the arena, man. If you can't say it to me in person in front of my kids, don't say it.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Kids
  • Anonymous

• How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Kids
  • Grandmother

• When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

  

  Paula Yates
  • Grief

• What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.

  

  Eric Betzig
  • Energy

• I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

  

  Mark Teixeira
  • Time

• Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it.

  

  Adrian Grenier

• We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

  

  Daniel Kahneman

• I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Sports

• Our objective should be to have a competition of ideas... I think it's a golden age in terms of policy ideas when it comes to Democrats and health care.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Age
  • Health
  • Competition

• I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

  

  Gemma Arterton
  • Up

• The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

  

  Doc Hastings

• I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • People
  • Past
  • Relationship

• New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • People
  • Home
  • Artist

• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Fate

• Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Distance
  • Learned
  • Safe

• Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

  

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
  • Patience
  • Burden
  • Complains

• The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Revelation
  • Gesture
  • Fraction