William Eggleston Quotes

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

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• In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Community
  • Fate
  • Impossible

• I have never believed in the impossible.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Never
  • Impossible
  • Believed

• I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

  

  Patrick White
  • Trying
  • Faith
  • Air

• Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Know
  • Look
  • Impossible

• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Person
  • Impossible

• You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • You
  • Impossible

• Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Day
  • Impossible

• I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Band

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Impossible
  • Environmental

• It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Impossible
  • Possibilities

• If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Time
  • Done
  • Easy

• The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Impossible
  • Grace

• God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • God
  • Government
  • Impossible

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Impossible
  • Divorce
  • Islam

• I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

  

  Han Fei
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Sure

• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Absurd

• This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Life
  • History
  • Profound

• Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Deep
  • Summer
  • Laziness

• Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

  

  Euripides
  • Souls
  • Friendships
  • Mortal

• Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Impossible
  • Photograph