Mccurry Quotes

#1. remember how they tracked down that green-eyed Afghan girl? And she's now a leather-faced crone? Because her life went from misery and shit to more monotonous and meaningless misery and shit, while her famous photo went 'round and 'round the world making that McCurry guy famous? I say we do it.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#2. In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

Mike McCurry

#3. If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view.

Steve McCurry

#4. If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph

Steve McCurry

#5. Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination.

Steve McCurry

#6. The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

#7. For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde

#8. An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.

Isaac Newton

#9. By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

Mike McCurry

#10. For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

Mike McCurry

#11. Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.

Mike McCurry

#12. If you want to be a photographer, first leave home

Steve McCurry

#13. To become a photographer leave your house first.

Steve McCurry

#14. For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Mike McCurry

#15. Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

Steve McCurry

#16. Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life.

Steve McCurry

#17. The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Mike McCurry

#18. I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

Mike McCurry

#19. What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling.

Steve McCurry

#20. Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

Rudolf Steiner

#21. My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

Steve McCurry

#22. In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon.

Steve McCurry

#23. We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

Steve McCurry

#24. For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope ( ... )Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.

Steve McCurry

#25. Dammit, woman, you've been trying to get rid of me since I arrived in Hannibal," he rasped.
"Why would you suddenly want me to stay?"
She shrugged. "I'm a woman. I'm allowed to change my mind whenever I want, as many times as I want."
"Convenient.

Alexandra Ivy

#26. When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.

Mike McCurry

#27. There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth.

Paul Broun

#28. People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

Temple Grandin

#29. Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.

Andrew Rannells

#30. There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

Mike McCurry

#31. I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.

Steve McCurry

#32. There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

Mike McCurry

#33. It's important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you.

Steve McCurry

#34. I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

Steve McCurry

#35. The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

Steve McCurry

#36. So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

Alton Brown

#37. The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.

Steve McCurry

#38. Both terrorism and insurance sell fear
and business is business

Liam McCurry