P.J. Mann Quotes

No matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best.

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Movies will make you famous; Television will make you rich; But theatre will make you good.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Unless you photograph what you love, you're not going to make good art.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.