Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

Henning Mankell

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

Henri Bergson

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Thinking should be done beforehand and afterwards - never while actually taking a photograph.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity of mind one's vivacity. The thing to be feared most is the artificially contrived, the contrary to life.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

Henri Frederic Amiel

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Helen Keller

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Helen Keller

Many of us delude ourselves with the thought that if we could stand in the lot of our more fortunate neighbor, we could live better, happier and more useful lives. ... It is my experience that unless we can succeed in our present position, we could not succeed in any other.

Helen Keller

We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.

Cat Osterman

If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today.

Catfish Hunter

The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.

Cat Power

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

Cat Stevens

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

Cat Stevens

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows

Cat Stevens

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

Cate Blanchett

I think most beauty tips that work and last are kind of old.

Cate Blanchett

I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.

Cate Blanchett

Any industry loses its innovation and loses its access to creative juices if you don't have progressive thinking and diversity.

Cate Blanchett

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

Cate Blanchett

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Cate Blanchett

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

Cate Blanchett

I look at someone's face and I see the work before I see the person. I personally don't think people look better when they do it; they just look different.

Cate Blanchett

Sometimes I think it's so good not to win those things. And, anyway, who wants to peak when they're 28?

Cate Blanchett

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

Cate Blanchett

I certainly think that when I flick through all the magazines at the hairdresser's I like to see and am drawn to images that have an intelligence and mind at work behind them.

Cate Blanchett

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

Cate Blanchett

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

Cate Blanchett

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

Cate Blanchett

I think good theaters are really important. They allow you to exist in a space with other people.

Cate Blanchett

I love theatre - it's where I started - and I've directed a play myself. I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.'

Cate Blanchett

I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.