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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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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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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From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State . . . . It is opposed to classical Liberalism . . . . Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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We know nothing accurately in reality, but only as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon the body and impinge upon it.
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All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
