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

• ...is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Words
  • Actions
  • Gesture

• 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

• I was heavily involved on all fronts: with mountaineering outfitters, who oddly enough never fathomed the depths of my ignorance; possibly because they couldn’t conceive of anyone acquiring such a collection of equipment without knowing how to use it…

  

  Eric Newby
  • Ignorance
  • Use
  • Equipment

• I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Notes
  • Chords

• 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