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“The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!”
Source : Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.10
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“I wasn’t destined to be an astronaut. I had to turn myself into one.”
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“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”
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“I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.”
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“If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.”
Source : Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company
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“When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?”
Source : "Moneymaker under a microscope". Interview with Bernard Lee, www.espn.com. June 5, 2008. 
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“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”
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“But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.”
Source : Thomas Dunn English (1885). “The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War”
