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

• 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

• Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

  

  Christopher Morley

• I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Moment
  • Behavior

• From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht

• When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any other. Aged ten, I felt slightly embarrassed by this, though I'm not sure why.

  

  Craig Brown
  • School
  • Why
  • Friend

• I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.

  

  John Polkinghorne
  • Different
  • Science
  • Temptation

• We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Good
  • Live
  • Running

• 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