Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jada Pinkett Smith

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Ernest Hemingway

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Evita Peron

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Fantasia Barrino

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

F. H. Bradley

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Bill Vaughan

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Benjamin Franklin

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Annie Leibovitz

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Annie Leibovitz

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Annie Leibovitz

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

Annie Leibovitz

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

Annie Leibovitz

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

Annie Leibovitz

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

Annie Leibovitz

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

Anthony Burgess

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs