Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Thompson

Now we really are going to Disneyland. I promised them if they won, we could go.

Charles R. Swindoll

To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.

Ehud Olmert

A prime minister must not promise things that can't be fulfilled.

Michael Cooper

If we had him, it's a different ballgame, I promise you that.

Michael Wynne

If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages.

Russ Jewett

I don't know about his status for this weekend, but I can promise he won't be triple jumping.

Councilwoman Sanchez

We promised you a one-stop, streamlined process. We have not been able to do that for you.

Anthony Hitt

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Barack Obama

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Dorothea Lange

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Andre Kertesz

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

Andy Warhol

I like boring things.

Andy Warhol

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Berenice Abbott

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

David Bailey

I never set out to be a photographer.

Annie Leibovitz

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

Bill Brandt

The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

In every photographer there is something of a stroller.