Andy Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  • A camel is a horse designed by committee.

  • I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  • His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

  • Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.

  • It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.

  • War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

  • For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed...

  • We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.

  • If I were you I would face my clothes, to make sure that no one runs off with them!