Ansel Adams Quotes

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• I'm not an architectural composer.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Composer
  • Architectural

• Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Way
  • Introduction

• After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Heart
  • Chance
  • Celebrate

• I have decided in 2020 to run for president.

  

  Kanye West
  • President
  • Run
  • Decided

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• I can always go back to education.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Education
  • Always
  • Back

• I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • City
  • Boy
  • Bike

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Funny
  • Baseball

• Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Light
  • Fence
  • Phone

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

  

  Carla Bley
  • America
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Growth

• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • Great
  • Mind

• I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People

• I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Thug

• I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Fun
  • Rock
  • Thought

• If you have a sense of irony or humour, you're usually cut down, as you're usually distorted or misinterpreted. So it does lead to us being slightly more dour and staid and predictable than would otherwise be the case, which I personally find quite frustrating - because if you don't laugh occasionally in my job, you cry most of the time.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Time
  • Job

• It isn't hard to see how the lack of representation affects the self esteem of many women world wide.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • World
  • Women

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Picture