Garry Winogrand Quotes

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

Garry Winogrand

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• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Right

• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Help
  • Brothers
  • Sights

• In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Work
  • Day
  • Week

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Why

• I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Musicians

• Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Job
  • Together

• Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Riot
  • Armenians
  • Azerbaijanis

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree probably Caesar Baronius: 'The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.'

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Heaven

• 'I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Loyalty

• But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Art
  • Scary

• There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • Men
  • Different
  • Writing

• I can't write songs unless I am in love.

  

  Kevin Ayers

• I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

  

  Jerry Mathers

• I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to 'suck it up' because so many other profound issues are at stake.

  

  David Mixner
  • Up
  • Tired
  • Profound

• To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Evil

• I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time
  • Long
  • Feeling

• I'm not that deep, I'm not that mysterious. Don't try to figure me out. I'm a very open book. What you see is what you get.

  

  Anastacia
  • Book
  • Deep
  • Mysterious

• A mountain has no need for people, but people do need mountains. We go to them for their beauty, for the exhilaration of standing closer to mysterious skies, for the feeling of triumph that comes from having labored to reach a summit.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Beauty

• There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Mysterious