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

• I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Way
  • Stories
  • Dialogue

• According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Sin
  • Wealth
  • Works

• I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

  

  John Sexton
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Photography

• 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