Nick Brandt Quotes

#1. (Shoddiness is) the nature of human life. It takes an exertion to be indifferent to these things, but it's an exertion worth making. Also, it allows you luxuries like scorn and flippancy.

Thomas M. Disch

#2. It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

Martin Amis

#3. One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

Barbara Mikulski

#4. No matter what I've endured in the past, what I've put myself through, or what others have done to me, I have the ability and the will to move forward. I will not give up. I will not undervalue or underestimate my capabilities.

Lily Collins

#5. I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#6. My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.

Nick Brandt

#7. I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans.

Nick Brandt

#8. Infinity is against us," I told him. "There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.

David Levithan

#9. My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and people here are so into the food. It's one of the most exciting food cities in the country.

Daniel Humm

#10. The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

John F. Kennedy

#11. History is like a constantly changing tree.

David Irving

#12. You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

Nick Brandt

#13. I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever was around me.

Jenny Hval

#14. The Negro's economic problem was compounded by the emergence and growth of automation. Since discrimination and lack of education confined him to unskilled and semi-skilled labor, the Negro was and remains the first to suffer in these days of great technological development.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. Perhaps true hangs increased the space in one's heart, creating openness that allowed for authentic community.

Wm. Paul Young