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 have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.

  

  Janine Turner
  • Plant

• I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a superman cape and pajamas, and I thought that was awesome - and some people didn't! But some people did, and it was an arts high school, so nobody made me feel bad about who I was.

  

  Aya Cash
  • People
  • School
  • Experience

• With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

  

  Jo Ann Emerson
  • Strong
  • Picture
  • Sales

• When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Hair
  • Picture
  • Higher

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

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Picture