Bill Atkinson Quotes

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

Bill Atkinson

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NatureGoodMyselfPeopleInspire

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

Jennifer McMahon

WallsEatingWoodsBlackStoneDead

My friend created an iPhone app that locates Vienna Beef products across the country. Personally, I came hardwired with an internal GPS that instinctively points me toward coffee shops, cupcake stores and the perfect Chicago-style dog, so I find this technology redundant.

Jen Lancaster

DogFriendTechnologyCoffeeMe

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Meghan O'Rourke

GriefPersonalUniversalCondition

Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.

Steven Spielberg

FatherRelationshipHappyChoices

The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

Robert Zubrin

SystemRationalAbsenceClearCode

I let people say and write what they want.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

PeopleSayWantWritePeople Say

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.

Minnie Driver

BeautifulRomanticPeopleThinkWant

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

Julia Davis

ParentsMeBlackThinkLearnYou

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.

Jay S. Walker

ImaginationDoctorPhilosophyYou

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Dick Cheney

ToughDebateWrongTalkObscure

People used to say, 'Well, how do you fake that?' Two words - we don't. When you got hit with the chair, you got hit with the chair.

Diamond Dallas Page

WordsPeopleFakeChairYouSay

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Chief Seattle

LifeTreeManBeastSpiritAir

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