William Eggleston Quotes

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

William Eggleston

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• I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Secretary

• Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Important
  • Why
  • New

• Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Course
  • Soak

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • World
  • Today
  • Problem

• No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Future

• Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Memory
  • Carry
  • Diary

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lie
  • Liar
  • Too Much

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • You
  • iPhone

• A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • History

• I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Money
  • Racism
  • Economics

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Everybody
  • Clean

• The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Mind
  • Language
  • Literature

• I like playing on this team. We actually been doin' real good. Got a different mix here. Most important thing is you gotta keep pickin' up in paces. That's why we're playing contentious play. We got top names, guys can still hit in the majors, guys been out of the game hittin' the ball, shockin' it. Don't have no old, old guys. Not sayin' they don't get a good job done. Fact is, they've been vice versa. So that's incentive right there. It's been a plus.

  

  Mickey Rivers
  • Different
  • Important
  • Things

• Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.

  

  Gannicus
  • Reason
  • Wrong
  • Blessing

• It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Reason
  • Happened
  • Grew