Minor White Quotes

One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

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• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I don't rely on my figure to sell records.

  

  Adele
  • Records
  • Figure
  • Rely

• For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Atmosphere

• I would have preferred it if the government of Turkey had not felt it necessary to issue its declaration... by doing so the process has frankly been made more difficult.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Government
  • Issue
  • Declaration

• I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Accept

• I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Work
  • Fear
  • Drive

• Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Weakness

• I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

  

  Dabo Swinney
  • Good

• Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how is this going to stand up to the test of time. Every little piece had to be this brilliant comedy jewel.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page of sheet much, and yet wishing she were anywhere else on earth, free of it all.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • She
  • Father
  • Free

• Your dreams will always be more important to you than anyone else, you can want something as much as you want but at the end of the day your mum doesn't care if your arms are 24 inches or not, but that doesn't mean you give up, chase your dreams.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Without education, confidence does not come.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Education
  • Confidence
  • Doe

• God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

  

  Vance Havner
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Doe

• Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Time
  • Want
  • Doe

• One does not photograph something simply for 'what it is', but 'for what else it is.

  

  Minor White
  • Doe
  • Photograph