"In my head I think, There is a beautiful picture here and by God, short of murder, I'm going to get it. So shut up and hold still! But what I say is: You look wonderful. It'll just take a minute. It's marvelous. We're doing something very special."

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Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

John Loengard

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Special Quotes

“If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.”
“The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.”
“People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics - are simply accepted as given, as brute facts. Nobody asks where they came from; at least not in polite company. However, even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith that the universe is not absurd, that there is a rational basis to physical existence manifested as law-like order in nature that is at least partly comprehensible to us. So science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview.”
“Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.”
“Getting into a new relationship is like pouring Miracle-Gro on your character defects.”
“I used to date Kellan Lutz. We were together for two and a half years, but the distance and travel really kept us apart. In the end we decided it wouldn't work, but we're still good friends.”
“If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.”
“We need an honest bottom line. Today that bottom line is vastly subsidized. If anyone of us were paying the full cost of oil our bottom lines would be very different. If you internalize the cost of oil, look at the cost of the war in the Middle East or the cost of global warming for future generations, if you internalize those external costs and what you pay, that bottom line would look very different, what ever business you are in.”

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