William Mortensen Quotes

Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

William Mortensen

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • See
  • Perception
  • Conscious

• To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Power
  • Action
  • Effective

• Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • True
  • Opinions
  • Worth

• The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Best

• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Structure
  • Task
  • Internal

• I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Live
  • Small
  • Day

• He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Good
  • Men
  • Done

• The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Victory

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• I think something I've been drawn to about the people I work with is that they seem to be - like me - people who are a little insane, and have to make music. It's not a choice they're making for the sake of vanity - like it's cool to be in a band.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music
  • Important
  • Joy

• Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Mexican

• I think for any artist, your voice is always evolving. For me, the constant is finding a tension or balance between drama and comedy.

  

  Lisa Cholodenko
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Balance

• I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Words
  • Couple
  • Husband

• The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • People
  • American

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, 'This is what we're going to do,' everything becomes fair game, and you really go for it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Game
  • Say
  • Going

• Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Friends

• Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms - all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet…. The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thoughts
  • Path
  • Memories

• If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Hand
  • Thoughts
  • Careful

• Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.

  

  William Mortensen
  • Thoughts
  • Emotion
  • Materials