Firsts Quotes

20399 Firsts quotes by 9251 unique authors

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an… — Galen Rowell
We pass the billboard and I console myself in two ways. First, I know that most photographs taken are a gamble at best. Second and… — Unknown Author
I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. — Ansel Adams
When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where… — Robert Adams
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys… — Philip Jones Griffiths
And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with… — Jerry Uelsmann
If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to… — Bill Brandt
I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a… — Paul Caponigro
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling… — John Mason Brown
It's not often you find yourself writing about a game that you haven't seen one kick of. But it's not often that the favourites lose… — Phil Cornwell
Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which… — Alan Hansen
It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside,… — Pete Gill
Let us first say what photography is not. A photograph is not a painting, a poem, a symphony, a dance. It is not just a… — Berenice Abbott
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,… — Aaron Siskind
...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it.… — Imogen Cunningham
At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us. — Minor White
The subject comes first, the medium second. — Richard Price
The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that. — Auguste Rodin
The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other. — Unknown Author
That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course — Trevor Brooking
Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth. — Adrian Chiles
Robbie Keane's not the second choice, he's my first choice. But Jermain Defoe is as well. — Unknown Author
Chris Porter scored his first league goal last week, and he's done the same this week. — Jeff Stelling
The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important. — Bobby Robson
I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win. — Howard Wilkinson

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