Andreas Feininger Quotes

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

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• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Car

• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Time
  • Wear
  • Shorts

• When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Power
  • Single
  • Year

• I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Feminism

• I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Science
  • Always
  • Spiritual

• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • American
  • House

• We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
  • Great
  • Problem

• My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Stop
  • Never
  • Hustle

• It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

  

  Yuan T. Lee
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Path
  • End

• 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

• But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • She
  • Kids
  • House

• I honor - we honor - the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Respect
  • Service
  • Honor

• I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Culture

• I’ve been shot at, hacked at, pummelled with catapult-stones, doused in flaming oil, tipped into drowning-pits, even covered by a landslide. I’ve seen every kind of violence humans know how to wreak, and I have learnt that you are creatures beyond cruel, beyond vengeful, beyond dishonest. So, yes, Knight. You are all villains in my mind.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Violence
  • Humans
  • Creatures

• You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

  

  John Travolta
  • Friend
  • Justice
  • Friendship

• Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Time
  • Power
  • Game

• A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

  

  Dallin H. Oaks
  • Together
  • Perfect
  • Marriage

• A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Perfect
  • Photograph
  • Boring