Ansel Adams Quotes

The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.

Ansel Adams

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• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Style

• He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Exhausted
  • Sooner

• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fan
  • Seth Rollins

• And the course was all about bonding. People used to say, you know, what’s going to make for a good world? I said, I can’t tell you beforehand, but right before they present it I can tell you if the world’s good just by the body language. If they’re standing close to each other, the world is good.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• 'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Know
  • Written

• Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Free
  • Control

• Think of it as evolution in action.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Action

• It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life
  • Work

• Christine Brinkley, that's my age range of supermodels. That's on my radar. This isn't someone where I don't know who she is. She turned out to be such a bright light. She walks into a room and just lights it up. She's just that person.

  

  Jim O'Heir
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• I must be allowed to be as I am.

  

  Agnetha Faltskog

• There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Time
  • School
  • Game

• Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub

• Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Great
  • Help

• My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • Heart
  • America
  • Fighting

• If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Up
  • Today
  • Jesus

• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Brave

• We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Military
  • Iraq
  • ISIS

• We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Heart
  • Rocks
  • Speaking