Brett Weston Quotes

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

Brett Weston

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• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Time
  • Power
  • Technology

• I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Interesting
  • Attitude
  • Brand

• While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place, according to his custom. He decided to enter upon the religious life.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Doubt

• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

  Hal David
  • Emotion
  • Try
  • Others

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• 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

• Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Work
  • Space
  • Dress

• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
  • Halloween
  • Nightmare

• The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Single
  • Attitude
  • Surprise

• I think we have too much history. It’s not so important. I think people should have fun and enjoy their own time. I haven’t done much, so why should I waste people’s memory?'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Up
  • Live

• I have always felt an excellent rapport ever since my very first concert in Britain at Hampton Court. I have always felt understood. The British understand opera very well.

  

  Andrea Bocelli

• It's definitely an interesting question: 'Do you need more funding to start a luxury business?' That's something I want to think about a little bit more.

  

  Aslaug Magnusdottir
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Question

• I feel really lucky to get to do comedy, and music, at all. I want to do as much as I can.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Music
  • Comedy

• It's hard to start from the bottom.

  

  Lou Duva

• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

  

  Maurice Chevalier
  • Bad
  • Age

• I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Work
  • Great

• As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

  

  Diogenes
  • Good
  • Friends

• The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • Competition

• All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Arguments
  • Defeated
  • Logically

• Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Home
  • Chance
  • Inspiration

• I'm not the kind of writer that goes, 'I'm gonna write a song about sunshine,' or, 'I've just heard a phrase, so I'm gonna write that,' and then I write a song. I'll wait for inspiration to hit, and you can't depend on it.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Sunshine

• Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

  

  Brett Weston
  • Inspiration
  • Drudgery
  • Photograhy