Eddie Adams Quotes

#1. If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

Eddie Adams

#2. I'll be fine, I'll be with Dumbledore,' said Harry. p.552

J.K. Rowling

#3. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera,

Eddie Adams

#4. Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

George Will

#5. Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something.

William Goldman

#6. All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

Eddie Adams

#7. When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Brian Clough

#8. Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.

Douglas Adams

#9. Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.

Douglas Adams

#10. Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, and the fact that we spend most of our mental lives in brain mansions built of words means that we lack the objectivity necessary to see the terrible distortion of reality which language brings.

Dan Simmons

#11. I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

Eddie Adams

#12. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

Eddie Adams