Wright Morris Quotes

The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

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• I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Rock
  • Wrestling
  • Favorite

• When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

  

  Francine Busby
  • People
  • Done
  • Business

• Let's not spend resources that we don't need to be sending astronauts back to the moon. Let's not spend expensive resources on bringing people who have reached Mars back again. Prepare them to become a growing colony.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • People
  • Growing
  • Moon

• Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Faith

• The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Success
  • Human

• I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather." "Yeah." "And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Together

• Caregivers of those with a traumatic brain injury had their blood pressure recorded at certain time of day -- at meals and during other activities, .. The blood pressure of the people who had adopted the pets went down dramatically.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Time
  • Brain

• I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Picture
  • Interest
  • Photography

• Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Profession

• In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

  

  Bill Harley
  • Library
  • Learned
  • Discovered

• Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • World
  • Day
  • Camera

• I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual being accepted by the Establishment. So, this kind of personal thinking, combined with, say, even the little bit more radical thinking - because at one time the pacifist movement was a very radical concept.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The photograph, after all, is just a photograph. Words will determine its meaning and status.

  

  Wright Morris
  • Photograph
  • Determine