Robert Capa Quotes
American - Photographer October 22, 1913 - May 25, 1954


If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
Robert Capa

The pictures are there, and you just take them.
Robert Capa

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Robert Capa

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
Robert Capa

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
Robert Capa

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.
Robert Capa

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
Robert Capa

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.
Robert Capa

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Robert Capa

I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave.
Robert Capa

The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
Robert Capa

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.
Robert Capa


Timothy Leary Quotes
American - Educator October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Timothy Leary

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

Think for yourself and question authority.
Timothy Leary

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
Timothy Leary

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
Timothy Leary

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Timothy Leary

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
Timothy Leary

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary

The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Timothy Leary

Science is all metaphor.
Timothy Leary


Ann Rule Quotes
American - Writer Born: October 22, 1935

Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
Ann Rule

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
Ann Rule

Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
Ann Rule

I always want to give the victim a voice.
Ann Rule

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Ann Rule

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
Ann Rule

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
Ann Rule

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
Ann Rule

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.
Ann Rule

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.
Ann Rule

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
Ann Rule


Christopher Lloyd Quotes
American - Actor Born: October 22, 1938

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.
Christopher Lloyd

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.
Christopher Lloyd

A sign that negotiations were handled well on both sides is that everybody probably feels a little bit like they didn't get what they wanted.
Christopher Lloyd

A lot of things you just stumble into: relationships or ways of putting characters opposite one another that really worked. So then it's not always so much about imitating other people, but imitating yourself, at least in your thinking.
Christopher Lloyd

A picador is the guy in a bullfight who helps make sure the matador doesn't get killed by distracting the bull. That's what TV writing is. You're just distracting the bull long enough to stick around for the next set of commercials.
Christopher Lloyd

On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on '3rd Rock From the Sun;' I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since.
Christopher Lloyd

In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.
Christopher Lloyd

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.
Christopher Lloyd

I get asked a lot what the key is to creating a hit show, and I have a standard answer: Do everything right, and then get lucky 10 ways.
Christopher Lloyd

We live in an era now where every episode is reviewed 80 different times on the Internet by periodicals you've never even heard of.
Christopher Lloyd


Max Apple Quotes
American - Writer Born: October 22, 1941

I've always been writing.
Max Apple

The story is my favorite form.
Max Apple

Everything always interests me.
Max Apple

Big things always interest me, but the big things don't work because they're too big. You have to find characters in which to couch all those things.
Max Apple

The things that block a writer are not the lack of words, but the same things that block all people - the difficulties of life.
Max Apple

I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.
Max Apple

I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.
Max Apple

If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.
Max Apple

A volume of stories, bereft of continuity in plot and character, is often unified only by the writer's obsessiveness.
Max Apple

I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.
Max Apple

I'm not driven. I love writing. My imagination is always working. I write when I have time, and life allows me the time.
Max Apple

I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.
Max Apple

Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.
Max Apple

As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.
Max Apple

As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.
Max Apple


Jeff Goldblum Quotes
American - Actor Born: October 22, 1952


It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.
Jeff Goldblum

I thought, this is a good sign. There's something perfect and right about this.
Jeff Goldblum

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.
Jeff Goldblum

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.
Jeff Goldblum

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.
Jeff Goldblum

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
Jeff Goldblum

It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.
Jeff Goldblum

Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.
Jeff Goldblum

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.
Jeff Goldblum

No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.
Jeff Goldblum

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.
Jeff Goldblum

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.
Jeff Goldblum

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.
Jeff Goldblum

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.
Jeff Goldblum

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.
Jeff Goldblum

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.
Jeff Goldblum

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.
Jeff Goldblum

People work harder when conditions are worse.
Jeff Goldblum

No matter how you travel, it's still you going.
Jeff Goldblum

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.
Jeff Goldblum

It's nice to play a character that has a soulful, dependent, close relationship. It must mean my character is interesting in some way.
Jeff Goldblum

It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.
Jeff Goldblum

It's an important fact of life, war.
Jeff Goldblum

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.
Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.
Jeff Goldblum

I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.
Jeff Goldblum

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.
Jeff Goldblum

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.
Jeff Goldblum

At the end of the movie all of us have this shared redemption.
Jeff Goldblum


Graham Joyce Quotes
English - Writer Born: October 22, 1954

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
Graham Joyce

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.
Graham Joyce

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.
Graham Joyce

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.
Graham Joyce

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.
Graham Joyce

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.
Graham Joyce

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.
Graham Joyce

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.
Graham Joyce

It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian crusader, the toxic Texan who refused Kyoto, the poll-cheat eel who undermined democracy on the back of something called 'chads,' a notion we've never entirely grasped.
Graham Joyce

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.
Graham Joyce

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.
Graham Joyce

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
Graham Joyce

George Orwell's '1984' frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: it's not a celebration of poetic language. It's decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what '1984' shows is that language can be a dirty trick.
Graham Joyce

I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making out that they are thick.
Graham Joyce

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
Graham Joyce

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.
Graham Joyce

Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.'
Graham Joyce

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
Graham Joyce

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
Graham Joyce

If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.
Graham Joyce

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.
Graham Joyce