Edward Curtis Quotes

#1. I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

Timothy Egan

#2. Edward Curtis was a photographer in the late 19th century who tried to document the rapidly disappearing Native Americans. He assembled a canon of work which, today, is exemplary and invaluable.

Rhys Ifans

#3. How can two living entities possessing intelligence and judgement ever be tied together for a lifetime?

R.K. Narayan

#4. I want to make them [American Indians] live forever. It's such a big dream I can't see it all.

Edward S. Curtis

#5. If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.

Richie Norton

#6. 'Darling, you have to come home,' she started in as soon as I answered. 'You cannot possibly want to stay in that ... that tomb with bodies falling out of the wall!'
'I don't know why not,' I replied. 'It's everything a ghoul could ask for.'

Josh Lanyon

#7. There was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.

P.G. Wodehouse

#8. He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

W. H. Auden

#9. To the oft-asked question, What camera or lens do you use? I can only reply I couldn't tell to save my soul - it is enough for me to know that I have something that will make pictures and that it is in working order.

Edward S. Curtis

#10. I was told freshman Republicans don't get their bills heard.

Dan Webster

#11. For every negative that is a disappointment, there is one that is a joy.

Edward S. Curtis

#12. When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

W. Clement Stone

#13. It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.

Lisa Stone

#14. Revolution? Change? What I really want, with all my heart, is for the atonic clouds to stop greyly lathering the sky. What I want is to see the blue emerge, a truth that is clear and sure because it is nothing and wants nothing.

Fernando Pessoa

#15. Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end.

Emily Thorne

#16. Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Tertullian

#17. The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

Lala Lajpat Rai

#18. I'm not a negative person.

Ian Somerhalder

#19. Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#20. Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

Jane Rule

#21. While primarily a photographer, I do not see or think photographically; hence the story of Indian life will not be told in microscopic detail, but rather will be presented as a broad and luminous picture.

Edward S. Curtis