Top 100 Weston Quotes
#2. There was a strange rumor in Highbury of all the little Perrys being seen with a slice of Mrs. Weston's wedding-cake in their hands: but Mr. Woodhouse would never believe it.
Jane Austen
#3. I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.
Max Pam
#4. The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.
Tom Weston-Jones
#5. Why is it that the best terrorists, the worst enemies, and the most dangerous people in the world always seem to be schooled in the North American Confederation?" Weston asked.
Evan Currie
#6. I cannot, as you [Edward Weston] once proposed to me - solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art ... in my case, life is always struggling to predominate and art naturally suffers.
Tina Modotti
#7. Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word he understood very well in any language.
C.S. Lewis
#9. Emma shivered again, and Mr. Weston noticed. "You're cold. Here, take this." He began to peel off his greatcoat, but she stayed him with a hand to his sleeve. "Don't. I'm fine." Realizing she had touched him, she snatched back her hand and forced a chuckle. "It is only your gruesome story.
Julie Klassen
#10. I knew I really didn't look that good, and that Edward Weston had glorified me, but it was a very pleasant thing to be glorified and I couldn't wait to go back for more.
Charis Wilson
#11. The Yale anthropologist Weston La Barre goes far as to argue that 'a surprisingly good case could be made that much of culture is hallucination' and that 'the whole intent and function of ritual appears to be... a group wish to hallucinate reality'.
Carl Sagan
#12. WESTON, COLORADO, was a small ranch town with dusty streets, too many cowboy hats, and a main drag that had been built to
Melissa Foster
#13. A private dance, without sitting down to supper, was pronounced an infamous fraud upon the rights of men and women; and Mrs. Weston must not speak of it again.
Jane Austen
#14. He broke away to catch his breath, but his mouth was soon drawn back to her skin, kissing her temple, her forehead, one cheek, then the other. "Mr. Weston," she breathed shakily. "I . . . I think - " "I think you might call me Henry at this point, don't you?" he teased.
Julie Klassen
#15. Jemima Jane Erickson was one drunken pass away from jumping Ethan Weston's bones. He just didn't know it.
Amy Andrews
#16. The stars in their courses were fighting against Weston.
C.S. Lewis
#17. Calm down Weston. It was just a window. I wasn't aiming for your head. - Samuel
Angela Richardson
#18. I don't believe I have been compromised. At least not past redemption. -Isabella Weston
Sara Lindsey
#19. I'm sick of the whole notion of the enduring female. GROW UP! 'Cause while you're going through your fifth puberty, the world is falling apart and I can't handle it! (Barbara Weston)
Tracy Letts
#20. If no one wants to jump into a Kim Weston and drive it down the street. That's fine with me I don't care. I know my work is good and I know it's serious work.
Kim Weston
#21. I suppose you have heard of the handsome letter Mr. Frank Churchill had written to Mrs. Weston? I understand it was a very handsome letter, indeed. Mr. Woodhouse told me of it. Mr. Woodhouse saw the letter, and he says he never saw such a handsome letter in his life.
Jane Austen
#22. It was quite a different sort of thing, a sentiment distinct and independent. Mrs. Weston was the object of a regard which had its basis in gratitude and esteem. Harriet would be loved as one to whom she could be useful. For Mrs. Weston there was nothing to be done; for Harriet every thing.
Jane Austen
#23. It's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos- Weston Michel
Rachel Van Dyken
#24. Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.
John Szarkowski
#25. I'm Vane Weston: The Last Westerly
Great- it sounds like something out of an anime cartoon.
Shannon Messenger
#26. John Cleese was a big hero of mine. He grew up in Weston Super Mare near Bristol where I grew up; he was always very tall and gangly, but he was smart and used his physicality in a very funny way. I used to think, 'Well he came from Weston and he did it, so there's a chance for me.'
Stephen Merchant
#27. Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
William Eggleston
#28. Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes.
-Vane Weston
Shannon Messenger
#29. Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow.
Galen Weston
#30. He would have thought God could make his own decisions, but Weston believes the creator may be pushed and coaxed and maybe bribed a little.
Hilary Mantel
#31. The event had every promise of happiness for her friend. Mr. Weston was a man of unexceptionable character, easy fortune, suitable age, and pleasant manners; and there was some satisfaction in considering with what self-denying, generous friendship
Jane Austen
#32. I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.
Ben Daniels
#33. Thank you, Professor Weston... - How about those ellipses? Did they fit there)
- Gillian
Whitney G.
#34. Weston chuckled, shaking his head. "Sometimes I wonder who's really in charge of this heap." "You are." Steph grinned. "And none of the rest of us want to take your place if you get your dumb ass killed, so bear with us, all right?
Evan Currie
#35. George Weston, after all was only a man - poor thing - and his wife made full use of every device which a clumsier and more scrupulous sex has learned, with reason and futility, to fear.
Isaac Asimov
#36. Edward [Weston] was the first artist - and I don't use the word lightly - to make a living doing art photography. Other photographers did commercial work, or worked for the government.
Rondal Partridge
#37. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.
Edmundo Desnoes
#38. ~ You know young Francis Weston? He that waits on the king? His people are giving out that you're a Hebrew... Next time you're at court, take your cock out and put it on the table and see what he says to that.
~ I do that anyway, if the conversation flags.
Hilary Mantel
#39. People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.
Edward Weston
#40. Ultimately success or failure in photographing people depends on the photographer's ability to understand his fellow man.
Edward Weston
#41. Emotions generally led to irrational and stupid actions. In this game, they were likely to be fatal. He regained his composure and became logical, rational, disconnected.
Roger Weston
#42. Modern Art is being used to index me. Surely it was a source but photographers have influenced Modern Art quite as deeply as they have been influenced, maybe more. Anyway painters don't have a copyright on M. A. We were all born in the same upheaval.
Edward Weston
#43. Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.
Galen Weston
#44. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.
Edward Weston
#45. A new love came into my life, a most beautiful one, one which will, I believe, stand the test of time ... Perhaps C. will be remembered as the great love of my life. Already I have achieved certain heights reached with no other love.
Edward Weston
#46. Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
Maria Weston Chapman
#47. Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
Edward Weston
#48. I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.
Edward Weston
#49. We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.
Randy Weston
#50. As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the imagination may be fired and the ambition and work directed by the advice and example of others.
Edward Weston
#51. When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.
Simon Weston
#52. I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.
Tom Weston-Jones
#53. I'm not photographing the model in the classic sense; the model is playing a part in my photographs. It's more like theater. I always work with models I know, and I let them participate in deciding how to act their part.
Kim Weston
#54. My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Edward Weston
#55. The darkroom is just the means to an end.
Kim Weston
#56. Cragg said, 'Come on, Rocky. I'm not getting
Gary Weston
#57. I see a film or a TV series or a play as being this machine. It sounds quite robotic, in its description, but it's basically a machine and you're just one of the cogs that goes in it. You're not the biggest one, and you're not the smallest one. Everyone's the same size.
Tom Weston-Jones
#58. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.
Simon Weston
#59. In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.
Robert Paul Weston
#60. In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
Kim Weston
#62. I really don't feel it's necessary, as an actor, to make people feel uncomfortable, just because you need to be in a certain headspace. So, I do take myself away and do my own work and hunker down.
Tom Weston-Jones
#63. My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.
Michael Weston
#64. Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.
Robert Paul Weston
#65. To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
Edward Weston
#66. In my normal time, I like bacon sarnies, I smoke and I drink coffee. I do look after myself, but sometimes I allow myself to just let go a bit.
Tom Weston-Jones
#67. My work is my language and I don't discuss it very easily. It's difficult for me to verbalize my feelings, or to intellectualize my work. In fact, it used to annoy me when Ansel Adams and Paul Strand yak-yak-yakked about what photography meant, and I told them so.
Brett Weston
#68. Ah! the year is slowly dying,
And the wind in tree-top sighing,
Chant his requiem.
Thick and fast the leaves are falling,
High in air wild birds are calling,
Nature's solemn hymn.
Mary Weston Fordham
#69. I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.
Kim Weston
#70. If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
Kim Weston
#71. Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.
Simon Weston
#72. The best actors are children and dogs because they're not acting at all." - Helen Mirren
Judith Weston
#73. In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
Robert Paul Weston
#74. The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
Edward Weston
#75. To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
Kim Weston
#76. The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.
Neville Weston
#77. I did tap dancing and stuff like that at drama school. I did ballet as well. My dance teacher and I didn't necessarily get along all that well sometimes. She's brilliant ... but it's just because I don't like wearing tights that I put up a bit of a fight there, I think.
Tom Weston-Jones
#78. Don't jump in with two feet where truly informed people tread with care.
Anthony Weston
#79. I keep your soul
In my ageing wallet,
The unimportant stuff
(Money, cards, coins)
Stay loose in my pocket,
A place as fickle as they.
Phen Weston
#82. Ruby poked at her rice, her mind racing. Perhaps he'd mistaken her for someone who had done a massage course or was qualified to give spriritual advice. She could only give advice on spirits, and only then if they were alcoholic.
Lia Weston
#83. I wanted to be a tough kid, so I thought, 'I'm going to move to New York, and I'm going to be a thug when I come out of there.'
Jonny Weston
#84. My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.
Celia Weston
#85. Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.
Edward Weston
#86. No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras
Edward Weston
#87. Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.
Simon Weston
#88. Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?
Julie Johnson
#89. Why is it women can never let a man have any fun, they just want to fuss about something." "They're practical" Austin said, shaking off some of the water droplets from his hair. "We live in the moment and they think about what's coming. If they didn't keep us in check, we'd fuck up the planet".
Dannika Dark
#90. It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.
Anthony Weston
#91. I love physical stuff. I love jumping in and getting my nose bloody. I don't really mind it. I think that, if you don't come out with a few cuts and scrapes, you haven't really been putting the effort it.
Tom Weston-Jones
#92. Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Edward Weston
#94. I have two older brothers, and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That's what I came from - that exploring nature.
Jonny Weston
#95. Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.
Robert Paul Weston
#96. PROLOGUE 7TH SEPTEMBER 1874 It's the music that wakes Alison. She opens her eyes and is instantly alert, with only one thought in her mind: They are in the garden again.
Danny Weston
#97. I haven't stopped working hard since I was 15.
Simon Weston
#98. An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.
Edward Weston
#99. The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
Brett Weston
#100. Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.
Tom Weston-Jones
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