Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice
By : Ira Gershwin
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
By : Herb Ritts
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
By : Ansel Adams
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
By : Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
By : Grace Abbott
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
By : John W. Gardner
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
By : Thomas Sowell
And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.
By : Michael Tilson Thomas
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
By : Andrew Greeley
It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.
By : Andy Partridge
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
By : Justin Bieber