Andre Kertesz Quotes

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

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• When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Why
  • You

• In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Good
  • Film
  • Stars

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crimes
  • Using
  • Link

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Live
  • Present
  • Singing

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.

  

  Young Thug
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Shoes

• The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • People
  • Work
  • New

• One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Alone
  • Path

• Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Fire
  • Coward

• People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • People

• I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • World
  • Great
  • She

• About fame... Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Practice

• Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Art
  • History
  • Nature

• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  

  Colin Powell
  • People

• If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Trying
  • Cold
  • Sick

• In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • House
  • Unique

• It's like if you have a bad day and you don't change your mindset, even if you go to buy bread at the supermarket, like, everything is so bad. It happens. I'm very negative. You have to change it.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Bad
  • Mindset

• At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Destiny

• The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima-the "eternal present".

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Age
  • Future
  • Past

• By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Live
  • Earth

• The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

  

  Andre Kertesz