Danny Lyon Quotes

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

Danny Lyon

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• Texas is a pretty free state.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Pretty
  • Free
  • Texas

• Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Happy

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Me
  • Software

• Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Good
  • Love
  • High

• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

  Gail Devers
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Medication

• The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Moments

• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Pussycat, pussycat,You're so thrilling and I'm so willingto care for you.So go and make up you big little pussy cat eyes.

  

  Hal David
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Cat

• I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying 'We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything.' And I'm like, 'Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that’s all I did.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Good
  • God
  • Light

• I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Work

• I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.

  

  Max Beesley Incognito
  • People
  • Taken
  • Beach

• I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

  

  Anne Enright
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Good

• If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • People
  • Drug

• Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • Business
  • Small

• Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them.

  

  Charles Clarke
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Reason

• You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People

• For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Single
  • Eyes
  • Simple

• I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • People
  • Real
  • Difficult