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

• When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

  

  Marv Levy
  • Up
  • Why
  • Fun

• I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Baby
  • Crying

• I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people say, "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Career
  • Vacation
  • Focused

• The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the reader’s eye, this will be misunderstood by most of that minority which does not wholly ignore it. In the interests, however, of the history and future of photography, that risk seems irrelevant, and this flat statement necessary.

  

  Walker Evans
  • History
  • Future
  • Risk

• I just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

  

  Lil Xan
  • Music
  • Creative
  • 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