Eddie Adams Quotes

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

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• I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Look

• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Name

• I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • City
  • Boy
  • Bike

• What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Amazing

• Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Period
  • End

• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Small
  • Mistake

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Art
  • Experience
  • End

• In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • War
  • Movie

• People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • Me
  • Husband

• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Results
  • Arrive

• And sure th' Eternal Master foundHis single talent well employ'd.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Single

• The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Mind

• It took me a long time to understand my water lilies.. .I planted them for pleasure, and grew them without thinking of painting them.. You don't absorb a landscape in a day.. .And then, all of a sudden, I had the revelation of the enchantment of my pond. I took up my palette.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I will remain on the throne until I fall off!

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Fall

• The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Passion

• Justice will win - because might does not make right, and the only path to lasting peace is when people know that their dignity will be respected and that their rights will be upheld. And citizens, like nations, will never settle for a world where the big are allowed to bully the small. Sooner or later, they fight back.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Ive been involved with Carnegie Hall for the last 13 years, and Chairman for the last six. I feel really good about what weve done growing our educational programs there, building a board that has made Carnegie Hall really a world-class institution.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • World
  • Building
  • Program

• While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in microscopic detail, but rather will be presented as a broad and luminous picture.

  

  Edward S. Curtis
  • Picture
  • Photographer
  • Indian

• If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

  

  Eddie Adams
  • Heart
  • Picture
  • Laugh