Top 24 Henry Jackson Quotes
#1. Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?
Joseph Henry Jackson
#2. There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.
Adam Driver
#3. After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
Andrew Jackson
#4. And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.
William Henry Jackson
#5. Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.
William Henry Jackson
#6. We do it, Jackson, because compassion must be louder than pride.
Victoria Schwab
#7. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.
Jeff Greenfield
#9. [The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.
William Henry Jackson
#11. The president's decision yesterday to set into motion the development of the hydrogen bomb ... has placed us on the knife-edge of history.
Henry M. Jackson
#12. The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
Susan Sontag
#13. We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.
Sorin Cerin
#14. You came, you saw, you burned everything to the ground.
Christina Henry
#15. I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Henry Flynt
#18. I have only two regrets:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
Andrew Jackson
#19. Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)
William Henry Jackson
#20. It is such a teaching in itself for us, all of us, every moment when we're with anyone.
Elizabeth Lesser
#21. I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.
Joe Eszterhas
#22. Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored.
Neil Gaiman
#23. Secrecy is for losers ... It is time to dismantle government secrecy, this most persuasive of Cold War-era regulations. It is time to begin building the supports for the era of openness that is already upon us.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#24. Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.
Elliott Abrams
