Vavra Quotes

#1. I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet ...

Leni Riefenstahl

#2. Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

Peter Ustinov

#3. At the Cardiff World Cup I really would like to make the final. The favorites are still Peter, Daniele or Vavra, but I will try to do my best in order to be closest as possible to these athletes.

Benjamin Boukpeti

#4. I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow, obviously ...

Norman Mailer

#5. During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.

James A. Michener

#6. From my own experience, I can tell you that there are mornings when you sit down at the typewriter and knock out three pages in forty-five minutes, and you look at yourself in the toaster over breakfast and your head's all misshapen and pointy, and you say, "Son, you were born with talent.

Pete Dexter

#7. My parents think I'm better under pressure.

Tori Amos

#8. The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener.

Joanna Cannon

#9. I don't objectify women. I'd like to think that I'm optimizing their hardware.

Ted Nugent

#10. No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.

Elizabeth Johnston

#11. When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

John F. Kerry

#12. I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

Barbara Mertz

#13. This is good for my ego after, like, two years of seeing Italian guys in pink sweaters and orange pants and, like, pulling it off. You know what I'm saying?

Tom Rachman

#14. We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Alice Walker

#15. It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Joe Jamail

#16. Okay. Some things were made of hope. But not this thing. This thing he was doing, that was made of surrender.
He did it anyway. At least when you surrendered, you had time to kiss the people you loved good-bye.

Amy Lane

#17. You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

Pico Iyer

#18. what could be its biggest round of layoffs in history.

Anonymous

#19. For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Winston Churchill