Ansel Adams Quotes
Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams
Quotes to Explore
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
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
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
When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
Patrick Kane
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
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
Lawyer even sounds like liar.
Walter Mosley
What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
Ben Jonson
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
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
There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Charles Dickens
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
