Rap quotes

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Sin is geographical.” Bertrand Russell

“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.” Simone de Beauvoir

“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.” William Blake

“I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.” David Bowie

“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” John Steinbeck

“Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.” John Steinbeck

“Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.” Angelina Jolie

“The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.” Donald Trump

“I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.” Elizabeth Taylor

“Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.” Virginia Woolf

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” Ansel Adams

“Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.” Ansel Adams

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.” Ansel Adams

“Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.” Ansel Adams

“Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.” Ansel Adams

“A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.” Ansel Adams

“I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!” Ansel Adams

“Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.” Ansel Adams

“Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.” Ansel Adams

“A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.” Ansel Adams

“Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.” Ansel Adams

“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.” Ansel Adams

“To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.” Ansel Adams

“It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.” Ansel Adams

“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

“In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.” Ansel Adams

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.” Marcus Aurelius

“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.” Richard Bach

“That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!” Robert Browning