When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. Ansel Adams
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. George Washington
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. George Eliot
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair'. Anton Chekhov
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. James Cameron
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain Truth Travel
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Politics
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. John Keats Thinking Poetry
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. Mark Twain
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson
The variety of intonations which it acquires evinces in the child great delicacy of impression and of expression ; hence the faculty of forming general ideas. All we do is to aid it in grasping these ideas by suggesting our words. Hippolyte Taine
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alan Turing Power
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. Voltaire
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. Annie Leibovitz Self-discovery Power Nature Dance
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. Thomas Jefferson
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name. Theodore Roosevelt
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. Niccolo Machiavelli
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Henry David Thoreau
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully. Friedrich Schiller Society
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. Niels Bohr
And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life. Minoru Yamasaki
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Jalal-Uddin Rumi
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. Simone de Beauvoir Society
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Oscar Wilde Society
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde Education
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot. Paris Hilton Self-discovery
Without love a man is just a body, an empty temple without the deity. With love the deity arrives, the temple is no more empty. Osho Inspirational Man Love Life
The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. Christopher Columbus
Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed. Blaise Pascal
