"As photographers, we live through things so swiftly. All our experience and training is focused toward snatching off the highlights... That all significant perfect moment, so essential to capture, is often highly perishable. There may be little opportunity to probe deeper."

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Source : Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.329, Pickle Partners Publishing

Margaret Bourke-White

#Photography Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.”
“It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs.”
“That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.”
“Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.”
“Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'”
“Those who march with us will certainly face abuse, misunderstanding, bitter animosity, and possibly the ferocity of struggle and of danger. In return, we can only offer to them the deep belief that they are fighting that a great land may live.”

Source : Oswald Mosley (2012). “The Greater Britain”, p.132, Black House Publishing Ltd
“I guess, you make a big studio film, you spend a lot of money on it and you hope people go see it. It's really risky.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.”

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