Ansel Adams Quotes

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Ansel Adams

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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Fall

• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Wine
  • Nothing

• A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Own
  • Superstitions

• A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Different
  • You
  • Direction

• I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Women
  • Write
  • Weak

• 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.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• Always stay true to yourselves.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • True
  • Always
  • Stay True

• We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Understanding
  • Unknown
  • Random

• Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good

• The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Father

• ...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. - We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • May
  • Insurance
  • Sales

• When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.

  

  Laz Alonso

• At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

  

  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• With L'Oreal, I get to be Aimee Mullins, model. No qualifier. And that means everything to me.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Model

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Reality

• All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Reality
  • Photography
  • Illusion