William Eggleston Quotes
There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.
Quotes to Explore
-
Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
-
I am a Buddhist.
-
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
-
Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
-
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
-
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
-
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
-
We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
-
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
-
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
-
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
-
It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
-
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
-
I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.
-
I do not seek. I find.
-
My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
-
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
-
I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
-
For me, the amazing thing was entering into this amazing world of 'Sesame Street.' We'd be in the kids' room, and there was a door into the soundstage that said '1-2-3 Open Sesame.' I remember pushing that door open and going into this incredible magical world of make-believe. In one episode, I was playing football with Joe Namath.
-
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.
-
It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.
-
People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.
-
I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.
-
There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film - I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.
