Alfred Stieglitz Quotes
AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
-
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
-
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
-
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
-
The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
-
San Francisco, coolest place ever.
-
The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
-
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
-
Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
-
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
-
I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
-
Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
-
If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
-
David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
-
I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
-
My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
-
God primes the pump of obligation.
-
American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.
-
We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.
-
I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
-
I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
-
A key to the mentality of the left is that it judges itself by its best intentions, and judges its opponents - America chief among them - by their worst deeds.
-
AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
