C.K. Webb Quotes

Sales bring out the worst in people.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

Good things happen when you go for it!

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

What has worked before is never as good as something that has never been tried before, even if it doesn't work.

Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

To a certain extent what I do is play with the world, but it's disciplined play.

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

The goal of online dating is to get offline as quickly as possible.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

Golf is my boyfriend right now.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

The well of Providence is deep. It's the buckets we bring to it that are small.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

... the possibility of one particular photographer's pictures lying around the corner is never realized until the photographer is there. It's one of the enigmas of photography.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

Use between three and five photos in your gallery. Galleries with more photos are more competitive, but after five they seem to pass a point of saturation and diminishing return.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know?

One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.

Our attainments [in space] are a major element in the competition between the Soviet system and our own . . . . in this sense, [they] are part of the battle along the fluid front of the cold war.

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

Persistence is the soul of a champion.

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.