Lucien Piccard Quotes

#1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.

Albert Einstein

#2. Working at the scene of the action, I have adopted Robert Capa's saying: 'If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.' But in retrospect I add a corollary: if you're too close to events, you lose perspective.

Micha Bar-Am

#3. When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

Michel Hazanavicius

#4. I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. The thing about an Alpha, male or female, is that they can lead. When things get desperate they attack instead of retreat.

Kristen Chandler

#6. Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

Charles De Lint

#7. Sometimes it seems to me that I shall never write out all the books I have in my head, because of the strain. The devilish thing about writing is that it calls upon every nerve to hold itself taut. This is exactly what I cannot do

Virginia Woolf

#8. Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.

Beverly Cleary

#9. People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Tiger Woods

#10. Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

Fred Wilson

#11. I have seen your mother; and I will never see her again!

Thomas Hardy