Kate Simon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was taken by William Burroughsâ€™ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.
-- Kate Simon

#Taken #Opportunity #Years
A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.
-- Kate Simon

#Summer #Twilight #Paris
The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient ...
-- Kate Simon

#New York #Way #Patient
The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.
-- Kate Simon

#New York #Trying #Taste
Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.
-- Kate Simon

#Country #Eight #Three
Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.
-- Kate Simon

#Women #Home #Knowing

In Jesus Christ on the Cross, there is refuge; there is safety; there is shelter; and all the power of sin upon our track cannot reach us when we have taken shelter under the Cross that atones for our sins.
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
I always thought the name of Utahâ€™s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word â€œdesert.â€ But no, Deseret is the â€œland of the honeybee,â€ according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

Kate Simon famous quotes

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