Galen Rowell Quotes

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Galen Rowell

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Time
  • Age
  • Cheer

• Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • Money
  • Free
  • Doubt

• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Grow
  • U.S.
  • Must

• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • High
  • Mountain
  • Blood

• My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Money
  • Lost
  • City

• Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Period

• Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Education
  • Form
  • Rewards

• Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Change
  • Opinions
  • Roots

• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Band
  • Son
  • New

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Band
  • Boy
  • Gay

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Choice

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

  

  Plutarch
  • Friends
  • Strong
  • Door

• But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today, and may be gone tomorrow.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Music
  • May
  • Today

• The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Personality

• I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Vision