Walker Evans Quotes

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

Walker Evans

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• I believe that you can always learn from observation.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Observation

• The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Sea
  • Favourite
  • Coast

• Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Future
  • Rap
  • Group

• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

  

  Dale Turner
  • People
  • Progress
  • Adventure

• First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • First

• My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Present

• I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Today
  • Feeling

• People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Remember
  • Tree

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Old

• I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Know
  • Dying
  • Bookstore

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Go

• I have a dark sense of humor.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Dark
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Problem
  • Leadership
  • Economy

• Play within the system. Be a decision maker.

  

  Dabo Swinney
  • Decision

• The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.

  

  Olaudah Equiano
  • Eye
  • Sea
  • Anchors

• Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

  

  Ada Cambridge
  • Law
  • Eyes
  • Justice

• Santa is having a tough time this year. Last year he deducted eight billion for gifts, and the IRS wants an itemized list.

  

  Milton Berle
  • Years
  • Gifts
  • Santa

• There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

  

  Stephen Frears
  • Spirit
  • Voice
  • Persons

• It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Eye
  • Listen
  • Educate