Norman Parkinson Quotes

#1. At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so much at the work of the photographers Cecil Beaton and Norman Parkinson, which seemed to represent a wonderful vanished grandeur of my new country.

Mario Testino

#2. My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#3. I also work with the spirituality of people.

Della Reese

#4. I like there to be a joke in practically every photo I take. Nobody has the right to make photography boring.

Norman Parkinson

#5. The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

Joel Coen

#6. You know what they say. One man's joke is another man's brother

Neil Leckman

#7. I feel like I'm heading full speed in the wrong direction.

Ken Akamatsu

#8. A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields.

Norman Parkinson

#9. I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.

Norman Parkinson

#10. I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock!

Wally Lamb

#11. The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

Norman Parkinson

#12. I don't think writers need to be insane. Just crazy.

Rayne Hall

#13. Zombie Super Powers, activate, you fucking bitches.

Diana Rowland

#14. The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

Norman Parkinson

#15. If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

Takashi Miike

#16. I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

Stephen King

#17. We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?

Wayne Rogers

#18. I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.

Norman Parkinson