Garry Winogrand Quotes
If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.
Quotes to Explore
-
I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
-
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
-
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
-
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
-
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
-
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
-
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
-
I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
-
Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
-
I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
-
I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
-
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
-
I love nature.
-
It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
-
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
-
The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
-
I want to serve the people.
-
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
-
Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.
-
I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
-
If I may bend your ear for a moment, I like Terry Pratchett. I like footnotes. I like footnotes even when they are not as entertaining as a Pratchett footnote, even when they are in the middle of a book on evolutionary biology and briefly explain the Red Queen hypothesis or the fate of the Stephen's Island Wren or how many bunnies can dance on the back of Australia. Footnotes fill me with a very mild glee. The endnote simply does not compare.
-
Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
-
I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
-
If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.
