Ansel Adams Yosemite Quotes & Sayings

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. — John Sladek

Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere. — Joseph Heller

The great rocks of Yosemite, expressing qualities of timeless yet intimate grandeur, are the most compelling formations of their kind. We should not casually pass them by, for they are the very heart of the earth speaking to us. — Ansel Adams

No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not. — Mel Brooks

God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature. — Timothy Keller

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite. — Ansel Adams

I wish it were different, but my body clock wakes me up between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. If I want to get enough sleep, I have to be in bed at 10. That means I'm totally a grandma. — Agyness Deyn

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. — Richard M. Nixon

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.' — Chelsea Clinton

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. — Ansel Adams

I have had a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. — Gavin De Becker

Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn't say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but she'd sharpened their attention. They gaped at her, slack-mouth and stupefied, trying to make sense of what their bleary eyes told them. — Vanessa Kelly

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou

I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centers, and gas stations and all the other unhealthy growth that flourished beside the highway. It was a landscape that no one else had much interest in looking at. Other than me. — Lewis Baltz

And come to think of it, maybe this is the most important lesson the school could teach them about the American workplace: how to sit calmly at your desk and surf the internet and not go insane. — Nathan Hill

When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

A regular method was the levy for a crusade, which allowed ecclesiastical income within each country to be taxed by its king, who soon came to regard it as a right. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I went to Yosemite as an homage to Ansel Adams. I could never be Ansel Adams, but to know that's there for us - there's so much for us in this country. — Annie Leibovitz

Everything Contains a Thing but you have to understand that thing — Osama