Ansel Adams Quotes

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

Ansel Adams

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• One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Years
  • President
  • First

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Apple

• In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • School
  • High
  • College

• It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Hunter

• What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

  

  Ben Jonson
  • April

• Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Money
  • Boy

• 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
  • People
  • Long
  • Truth

• I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Wife

• In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• 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
  • American

• Facebook already has a large political ad sales and operations team that manages ad accounts for large campaigns. Zuckerberg hinted that the company could follow the same 'know your customer' guidelines Wall Street banks routinely employ to combat money laundering, logging each and every candidate and super PAC that advertises on Facebook.

  

  Antonio Garcia Martinez
  • Money
  • Political
  • Team

• Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Ugly

• It's important to have the right agent - people that are working hard for you. But an actor needs to be in control of their career no matter how good the representation is.

  

  Joel McHale
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.

  

  Bronson Pinchot
  • Hair
  • Gym

• There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Feminist

• As long as my husband's looking at me, that's all I care about!

  

  Kelly LeBrock
  • Long
  • Husband

• I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

  

  Ahmed Ben Bella
  • America
  • Latin

• Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.

  

  Galen
  • Health
  • Nervous
  • Maximum

• Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

  

  Arthur Rothstein
  • Language
  • Photography
  • Boundaries

• I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Pleasure
  • Used
  • Technique

• We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • May
  • Book

• The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photography
  • Pictures
  • Technique