Ansel Adams Quotes
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
Quotes to Explore
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Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
Radhanath Swami
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
Xenophon
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
Patrick Kane
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
Halima Aden
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
Walter Mosley
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What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
Ben Jonson
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
Agatha Christie
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Charles Dickens
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It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.
Jeff Bridges
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In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let them down.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Why am I a closet country music fan? Because I grew up being into rock, and I always thought that country music was, like, something my mom was into. Like, it wasn't cool. It wasn't happening. They were all singing about driving around in their trucks looking for Lulu.
David Zabel
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I was such a huge fan of 'The X-Files.'
Bryan Fuller
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In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
Philippe Falardeau
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For cardio, I do SoulCycle. I really don't like to run, plus I have terrible knees and get bored on the elliptical. SoulCycle is basically a dance party on a bicycle, and you burn calories, and it's so fun.
Allison Williams
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I know it's going to be just magical, and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova.
Casey Dellacqua
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I've grown up around people who love photography, and I think from being photographed for so long, I always wanted to understand how it worked, and I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by some really wonderful photographers, and so I learnt a lot from them, and I always ask them questions.
Amanda de Cadenet
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
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The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."
Len Wein
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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
