Ansel Adams Quotes
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Quotes to Explore
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
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Always stay true to yourselves.
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.
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At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.
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Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
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A lot of people don't know the passion I have for Asian American cinema.
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Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
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The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
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Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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The world is a fascinating, difficult place, and in order to take full advantage of what the planet has to offer, we need to see and hear natural things.
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The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.
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Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.
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I also believe that when people are going through difficult situations in life... it causes them to search a lot more. They search life and search their soul. When you’re searching, you’re suddenly a lot more open to the world around you, to the possibilities, to things you never thought about before. — When you’re happy, you don’t question the world so much. When you’re lost, you question everything. The very reason why it is so essential to human self-discovery
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Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing-in addition to caring for man’s well-being-they were providing rights for themselves.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
