Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Richard Avedon

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Richard Avedon

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Umberto Eco

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

Robert Capa

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

Robert Capa

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Robert Capa

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

Robert Capa

If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.

Robert Capa

The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Sandra Bullock

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Matt Bomer

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

Natasha Lyonne

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

Nicholas A. Christakis

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

Neil Armstrong

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Mithun Chakraborty

You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.

Richelle Mead

I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri

Richelle Mead

This was the kind of dress that changed the world. The kind of dress that started religions.

Russell Brand

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Ronda Rousey

I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.

Ronda Rousey

It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.