Quotes About Neil Leifer

#1. The longer I live, the more boring youth becomes. So redundant. Each generation rediscovers the wheel of rebellion, the wheel of love, and so forth and so on. We hardly know which end is up until we're in our thirties.

Barbara Neely

#2. There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

Steven Klein

#3. So, in the name of science, I demand that we mess around with guns!

Andrew Hall

#4. E continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females ... and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.

Elizabeth Peters

#5. Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

Neil Leifer

#6. Janine smiles. Strike the second sentence. Reader will know. Show, don't tell.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. You have to be ready for luck.

Neil Leifer

#8. You don't understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

Whittaker Chambers

#9. The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

Olivier Messiaen

#10. Once the cow's been milked there's no squirting the cream back up her udder.

George R R Martin

#11. What matters is not just how motivated someone is but the source and nature of that motivation.13

Alfie Kohn