Edward S Curtis Quotes

#1. Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

David Sedaris

#2. A miniature dancing bear that had to go potty. Scooping him up, Grace ran for the front door, getting him outside just in time for him to race to the closest tree and lift a stumpy leg. Toby, still in his Star War's pj's, trotted across the yard to join him in anointing the tree.

Jill Shalvis

#3. Never pursue literature as a trade.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Timothy Egan

#6. 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

#7. America will be refused eternity by her own mad son the bomb!

Allen Ginsberg

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

Edward S. Curtis

#9. Nothing is more common in an age like this, when books abound, than to fancy that the gratification of a love of reading is real study.

John Henry Newman

#10. 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

#11. I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.

Jeff Jordan

#12. It was the Trashcan Man," Stan said. "He went hogwild. Jesus Christ only knows what else he's wired up to explode out here.

Stephen King

#13. I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Paul Daniels

#14. To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

James Joyce

#15. 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

#16. Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Michael Porter

#17. I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

Brian Skerry

#18. Paul Benacerraf, 'What Numbers Could Not Be,' Philosophical Review (1965).

Roger Scruton