Ansel Adams Quotes
We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
Quotes to Explore
-
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
-
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.
-
And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
-
The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
-
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
-
Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
-
Our best thoughts come from others.
-
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
-
From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
-
One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
-
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
-
If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
-
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
-
Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
-
I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
-
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
-
Bahrain is very dear to me.
-
When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
-
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
-
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
-
If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.
-
You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.
-
A bodhisattva is someone who has taken on the sole task of meeting the needs of others, no matter how difficult that might be. His or her self-centeredness has been reduced to the point where wisdom, love, and compassion arise naturally, benefiting any situation. So the mind of a bodhisattva is heroic, vast, and of limitless benefit.
-
We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.
