James Nachtwey Quotes

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

I think there's a lot of elements that go into making a really awesome horror film and that's like putting together like a real good group of people that you love to watch them either live or die.

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.

Sonny Liston stood up to me and actually made me give ground. No one has ever done that to me before or since.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

We are come for your good, for all your goods.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.