Chris Shipley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

  • I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  • Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

  • I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

  • The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.

  • A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  • Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

  • Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

  • I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

  • The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.