Top 15 Batsford Guides Quotes
#1. Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#2. All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident
enabling unpopular persons to survive.
Bertrand Russell
#3. The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#4. I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
Lana Del Rey
#5. Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.
Heather Matarazzo
#6. Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.
Bodie Thoene
#7. That's what I love about people. They have dreams and grand ambitions, and they start building towards them, even though they know they won't live to see them finished. That's how the pyramids were built.
Dan Abnett
#8. Miss Cornelia dropped in that afternoon, puffing a little.
"I don't mind the world or the devil much, but the flesh does rather bother me," she admitted. "You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie. Do I smell cherry pie? If I do, ask me to stay to tea ...
L.M. Montgomery
#9. The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.
Suranga Chandratillake
#10. The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.
Rebecca West
#11. The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they do, they can become a place for the presencing of the whole as it might be, not just as it has been.
Betty Sue Flowers
#13. I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
#14. Be yourself, you will not get a second chance to.
- Daniel, Age 12, Munich, Germany, October 14
R.J. Palacio
#15. Anger suffocates your mind, body and soul. The ability to love amidst anger is a true blessing and it transcends our existence!
Monica Chrisandtras Hines