William Eggleston Quotes

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

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• The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Parents
  • Path
  • Successful

• Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Understanding
  • Dangerous

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  

  E. B. White
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Myself

• In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Together
  • Man
  • Past

• I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Woman

• When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Why
  • Character
  • Movie

• First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Great
  • Winning
  • Losing

• I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Confidence

• My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • She
  • Movie

• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  

  Banksy
  • Live
  • Painting
  • Model

• I want to - we're working toward Justice League, and I really want to create the - part of the thing I really want to create is the possibility of a world where they could exist together.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Together
  • Justice

• I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • World
  • Thing

• Who are you wearing? Who are you wearing?

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Wearing

• That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Sun
  • Stories
  • Blood

• Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Clients

• Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

  

  Mary Callahan Erdoes
  • Everything
  • Becoming
  • Everybody

• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Great
  • House
  • Attention

• And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Frank Lloyd Wright

• I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Deals
  • Clients
  • Legends