Sensitive Quotes - Page 38

• Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)

  William Henry Jackson

  Morning, Mountain, Holy Cross

  Dean Knudsen, William Henry Jackson, United States. National Park Service, Oregon Trail Museum (1997). “An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum”

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• I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Cutting, Creating, Balance

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• The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.

  Dennis Stock

  Photography, People, Cameras

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• [The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.

  Henry Fox Talbot

  Eye, Glasses, Cameras

  William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”

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• It was like everything that supported the relationship was coming from the outside. Judging by all the signs, we were a perfectly successful couple and John was an ideal husband for me - rich, blond, tall, sensitive, ad nauseam. But even worse, it seemed as if our most intimate conversations were based on what we were supposed to be saying, and what we were supposed to be. Nothing seemed to come directly from us.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Couple, Husband, Successful

  Mary Gaitskill (2012). “Bad Behavior: Stories”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Law, Forever, Lasts

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Special, Doe

  Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.144

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• I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Sleep, Light, Hyper

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2011.

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• Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.

  Vera Wang

  Feelings, Today, Taste

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• I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

  Olivia Wilde

  Men, Emotional, Thinking

  "Olivia Wilde Takes Center Stage". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2013.

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• I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

  Serena Williams

  Feminine, I Realized

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• Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Air, Identity

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

  Helen Fisher

  Mother, Philosophy, Medicine

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• As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Running, Silence, Libertarian

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• This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Inspire, Feelings

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• There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pride, Caring, Gun

  "Why I Am a Conservative". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1996.

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• I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Thinking, Nervous, Used

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). “The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader”, p.4, University of Virginia Press

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• She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

  Christopher Moore

  People, Special, Different

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Bloodsucking Fiends: Book 1: Love Story Series”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.486, Open Road Media

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• If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

  Wendy Shalit

  Mean, Rejection, Indifferent

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• Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mother, School, Doctors

  "Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident". Book by Eoin Colfer, 2002.

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• In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Lonely, Two, Darkness

  Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.149, Courier Corporation

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• In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.

  David F. Wells

  Character, Personality, Tvs

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• The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

  Lynne Truss

  Arbitrary, Vapour, Way

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Desire, Skins, Apathy

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