Lisette L Quotes

#1. It is the surface I am interested in. Because the surface is the inside.

Lisette Model

#2. Brown eyes, so dark they appeared black, met hers and struggled to focus.
His hand moved under hers, turning so he could curl his fingers around hers.
"This had better not be another fucking fantasy," he muttered.

Dianne Duvall

#3. Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

Kevin Kline

#4. Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue for a poison pen.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

Susan Vreeland

#6. The girl was beautiful, her skin like fresh cream and her long hair so dark it seemed to suck the color out of everything it surrounded. She was small. French women all seemed to be small-boned bird creatures, delicate in a way Eby could never be.

Sarah Addison Allen

#7. This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography.

Lisette Model

#8. Watching Hamlet embarrassing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by showing them he knows they're liars and spies, Max was thinking, Hamlet cares only about the truth, or only he cares about the truth, and it's so hard to find, too hard for anyone to find. Where is it?

Lucy Beckett

#9. Never take a picture of anything you are not passionately interested in.

Lisette Model

#10. For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Sarah Addison Allen

#11. I have often been asked what I wanted to prove by my photographs. The answer is, I don't want to prove anything. They prove to me, and I am the one who gets the lesson.

Lisette Model

#12. I am a pationate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images, it comes closest to the truth ... the snapshooter['s] pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection which is exactly their appeal and their style.

Lisette Model

#13. O lovely river of Yvette!
O darling river! like a bride,
Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette
Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide.
O lovely river Yvette!
O darling stream! on balanced wings
The wood-birds sang the chansonnette
That here a wandering poet sings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#14. This summer I'd been spending a lot of time on other people's deaths. Harley's. Lisette's. But somehow it had helped me feel alive. Because they weren't my deaths. The ones that were my own were too hard to face.

Ally Condie

#15. Lauren swallowed. "Lisette also told me ... you weren't house-trained." He gave her a knowing look, but said only, "She had one out of two things right.

Joey W. Hill

#16. Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Lisette Model

#17. New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

Lisette Model

#18. Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

Lisette Model

#19. My hearts desired divine twins,
My guardian angels,
Jeremias-Jean Joachim Akita
Lia-Lachelle Lisette Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

C.S. Forester

#21. Lisette set out browned chicken, warm butternut squash salad, blue potatoes, and blackberry bread with a crust of sugar that looked like ice crystals.

Sarah Addison Allen

#22. I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

Lisette Model

#23. My knee struck a tree root as my vision went black. Suddenly, I was in a building at Haven Crest, kneeling on the floor. Blood, thick and clotted like canned cherries, crept down the walls. The lights above my head flickered off then on with a menacing hum.

Kady Cross

#24. There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them ... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

Diane Arbus

#25. Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.

Lisette Model

#26. I would never betray you," she responded automatically, then bit her lip.
He raised one eyebrow.
"Okay, other that boinking your enemy, I would never betray you," she qualified.
He huffed a laugh, "Boinking?"
"I believe that's one of Sheldon's terms.

Dianne Duvall

#27. Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

Lisette Model

#28. I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living ... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?

Lisette Model

#29. She was enchanting. He loved the notes she wrote in her pretty handwriting, the way she smelled, like oranges and dough, the savage blackness of her hair.

Sarah Addison Allen

#30. Don't shoot til the subject hits you in the pit of your stomach.

Lisette Model

#31. Wow. That hurt. Like a lot." Jared's face scrunches up in pain as he struggles to sit. "What did you have for breakfast? A bowl full of steroids?

T.L. McDonald

#32. The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

Lisette Model

#33. They say my prints are bad, darling they should see my negatives

Lisette Model