Camera Quotes
1389 quotes by 1047 authors
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He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
— Ellen Hopkins
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Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there.…
— Sarah Dessen
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
— Dorothea Lange
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If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
— Woody Guthrie
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It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson,…
— George W. Bush
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It is not a camera, or a reporter that makes something real and genuine; more often a camera or a reporter does the opposite.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A…
— Maira Kalman
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It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so,…
— Jeff Lindsay
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I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
— Christopher Isherwood
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Shigure: "What's in the camera? Huh? Huh? What is it?" Hatori: "Quiet, you hack.
— Natsuki Takaya
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Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be…
— J R Ward
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Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?
— Craig Ferguson
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I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could…
— Alice Sebold
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You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like…
— Nick Hornby
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Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.
— Joe McNally
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[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person…
— Sarah Dessen
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I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't…
— Jessica Stern
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Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile…
— Ansel Adams
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