He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on… — William Henry Jackson Copy Share Image
Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. — Alfred Eisenstaedt Copy Share Image
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate. And a a lot of people do, out of relief that their children… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If you look at most photography, especially the pictures that grab you, they are not objective at all. Sometimes gut wrenching and… — John Filo Copy Share Image
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows,… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter. — Ralph Steiner Copy Share Image
Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
