George Rodger Quotes

I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

George Rodger

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• I'm going to reach out to everybody, Democrat, Republican and independent. I'm going to work with all the people in the district, and whether they're an 'R' or a 'D' doesn't matter.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • People
  • Work
  • Independent

• A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Death
  • Director
  • Reaction

• Before taking final leave of me, my instructor inquired concerning my physical strength, and I was able to inform him that I hadn't any.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Strength
  • Leave
  • Instructor

• Every effective drug provokes in the human body a sort of disease of its own, and the stronger the drug, the more characteristic, and the more marked and more violent the disease. We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic affliction with another supervening disease, and prescribe for the illness we wish to cure, especially if chronic, a drug with power to provoke another, artificial disease, as similar as possible, and the former disease will be cured: fight like with like.

  

  Samuel Hahnemann
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Wish

• It's the normal routine for me. We'll meet with the players and review the season. That's the immediate future.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Future
  • Players
  • Season

• The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

  

  Lou Gehrig
  • Trying
  • Goes On
  • Babe

• We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hope
  • Growth
  • Lifetime

• I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.

  

  Madame Roland
  • She
  • Reading
  • Years

• ...So, take what's inside you and make big, bold choices. And for those who can't speak for themselves, use bold voices. And make friends and love well, bring art to this place. And make this world better for the whole human race.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Friends
  • Choices
  • Voices

• I don't like hockey. I'm just good at it.

  

  Brett Hull
  • Good
  • Like
  • Hockey

• Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Profound
  • Blindness
  • Laughs

• If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Different
  • Internet
  • Overcoming

• False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.

  

  William Penn
  • Falsity

• Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hope
  • Trial

• At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

  

  William Standish Knowles
  • Strong
  • Math
  • Chemistry

• It's not about big markets or small markets. It's not about dominant teams or not. It's about the actual competition and how good the games are, how good the series turn out. That's what I think is the most important for fans.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Small

• The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

  

  Mircea Eliade
  • Meaning
  • Crisis
  • History of Religions

• For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

  

  Gail Levin
  • Intelligence
  • Source
  • Endless

• I had no contact with my contemporaries in the photographic field, nor even knowledge of their work. So I was influenced by no-one and there were no short cuts for me. I was self-taught the hard way, by trial and error.

  

  George Rodger
  • Error
  • Trial
  • Photographic