Edward Eggleston Quotes

#1. They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.

Edward Snowden

#2. Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless it had been a first-class circus.

Edward Eggleston

#3. The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

Edward Eggleston

#4. Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.

Edward Eggleston

#5. Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

#6. I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't suppose you know about the od which Reichenbach discovered.

Edward Eggleston

#7. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Journalism is organized gossip.

Edward Eggleston

#9. The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action!

Ray Kroc

#10. If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

Shimen Ruskin

#11. Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

William Eggleston

#12. In every operation, there's a risk, and you don't know whether it's gonna ... you know, obviously there's that 95% chance, whatever they say, they can never say 100% you're gonna be better. But the concern and the worry is the worst thing.

Jess Glynne