Top 14 Barbara Ess Quotes
#1. Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.
Miguel De Cervantes
#2. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
#3. Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
Tracy McMillan
#4. To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Mark Twain
#5. Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
Ariana Franklin
#6. I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.
Barbara Ess
#7. Reality ... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.
Barbara Ess
#8. I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
Preston Sturges
#9. Without 'consent' in any human interactions, there's an ethical violation.
Henry Johnson Jr
#10. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.
Barbara Ess
#13. Never before have so many people tripped over one another in their eagerness to get rich and thereby impaled themselves on the consequences of their own greed. The greatest irony of it all is that it's done in the name of contentment
N. T. Wright
#14. I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.
Barbara Ess
