Danny Lyon Quotes

I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

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• Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Community
  • Best
  • Interest

• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Music
  • Public
  • Festivals

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Guy
  • Inspiration
  • Kid

• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Happen

• The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Stop
  • Best

• Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Day

• Military history shows air action only cannot achieve the goal of defeating an enemy.

  

  Dan Coats
  • History
  • Action
  • Air

• If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Artist
  • Successful
  • Greatest

• Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  

  Irving Penn
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Country
  • Small
  • Perfect

• Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

  

  Charles Michel

• I grew up in Belle Harbor, which is in New York City, but it has the most powerful sense of nature and seasons. It wasn't even the beach and the water. I just dreamt about everything that had to do with nature. I read about Thoreau.

  

  Joel Sternfeld
  • Up
  • Nature
  • City

• I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

  

  LeAnn Rimes

• Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

  

  Kim Casali

• Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Cooking

• Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Good

• It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.

  

  Wajdi Mouawad
  • Important
  • inspirational
  • Successful

• Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Culture
  • Students
  • Clothing

• I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Students
  • Class
  • Whatever

• I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

  

  Cecily McMillan
  • Needs
  • Order
  • Duty

• And therefore you who think so basely of the gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort is not come, know it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends. The Spirit of God by his convictions comes into the soul with some terrors, but it closeth with peace and joy.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Moments

• I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Order
  • Students
  • Bike