Margaret Bourke-White Quotes

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

Margaret Bourke-White

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• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good Things

• Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Career

• I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a village called Atrani. I discovered that Gore Vidal lived right above us in a big house, so I sent him a note.

  

  Jay Parini
  • House
  • Wife
  • Study

• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  

  Matt Cameron Soundgarden
  • Band

• It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.

  

  Hannah Bronfman

• Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

  

  Chuck D
  • People
  • Real
  • Confused

• Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

  

  Will Smith

• Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Life
  • Marriage

• These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Gay

• 'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.

  

  Craig Shirley
  • Fire

• I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Movie

• Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Action

• To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Good
  • Moral
  • Training

• My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

  

  James Callis
  • Soldier

• I don't fetishize objects.

  

  Jessica Stockholder

• The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Slavery

• At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Drawing

• While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.

  

  Elizabeth George

• I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Dream
  • Photography
  • Luck

• Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Sound
  • Scene
  • Cameras

• Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated world. This is one lesson we can learn from photographs, and especially from those of the last 25 years: images exist not to be believed, but to be interrogated.

  

  Andy Grundberg
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

  

  Margaret Bourke-White
  • Photography
  • Cameras
  • Subjects