Ansel Adams Quotes

All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

Ansel Adams

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• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.

  

  Nate Powell
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Write
  • Room

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Contradiction
  • Scares
  • Stimulated

• My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Community
  • Action

• I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Drama
  • New York

• Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Change

• Let your children go if you want to keep them.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Very

• I think it's important to have a dream and to follow your heart.

  

  Austin Butler
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Dream

• And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People
  • Up

• For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • American
  • Strong

• The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

  

  William Osler
  • Work
  • Men
  • Age

• When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Want
  • Brother
  • First

• I always knew, even as a kid, that my mom had a really rough life, and I always wanted to make her feel happy and to make her feel good.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• When I ask OGs why there's so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

  

  Kendrick Lamar
  • Why

• I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Up
  • Think
  • Always

• All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

  

  Ansel Adams
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