Minor White Quotes

If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

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• You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Need
  • Washington

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Free
  • Hand

• We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Places
  • Sand

• It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Strange

• Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Try
  • Champions

• Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Play
  • Characters

• Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Fun
  • Sick
  • Missing

• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Money
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Energy

• She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

  

  Emma Alice Margaret Asquith
  • She
  • Lies
  • Wedding

• They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up

• Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

  

  Leon Trotsky

• We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

  

  Jim Talent
  • People

• I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my world record.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • World
  • Why
  • Broken

• I love to listen to traditional country music. That's where I get a lot of inspiration.

  

  Margo Price
  • Inspiration
  • Country Music

• At the base, it's about a man from America who doesn't quite fit in, with the comedy that entails. Everyone can relate to that, when things are lost in translation.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • America
  • Lost
  • Comedy

• I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Training
  • Determine

• There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possibility

• Quite frankly, I'm running a campaign on the economy and jobs and economic opportunities for the American people.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • People
  • American
  • Running

• Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

  

  Johan Cruyff
  • Running
  • Confused

• If all your life means to you is water running over rocks, then photograph it, but I want to create something that would not have existed without me.

  

  Minor White
  • Running
  • Photograph
  • Rocks