Alexander Rodchenko Quotes

Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

Alexander Rodchenko

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• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Art
  • Movie
  • You

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

  

  Larry Page
  • Why
  • Know
  • Government

• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Book
  • Fear
  • Down

• A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Good
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• The first colours which made a strong impression on me were light juice green, white, crimson red, black and yellow ocher. These memories go back to the third year of my life. I saw these colours on various objects houses and roofs, in Russia which are not as clear in my mind as the colours themselves.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Black

• I guess I'm not always looking for the same things in movies that most people are, which I wouldn't have necessarily even really known if not for spending too much time reading about myself on the Internet.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Reading
  • Movies
  • Internet

• There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Country
  • Spiritual
  • Economic

• There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Life
  • Up

• Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.

  

  Alexander Rodchenko
  • Life
  • Camera
  • Describing