Emmet Gowin Quotes

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

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• I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• Politics is the art of the possible.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Possible

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Star
  • Win

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Generation
  • Step
  • Recycling

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Very

• I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Husband

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Lassie

• You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Advertising

• Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Women
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • City
  • Gorgeous

• There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

  

  John Milton
  • Faults
  • Confess
  • Humbly

• As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Visible
  • Digital World

• I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

  

  Emmet Gowin
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