Gilden Quotes & Sayings

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world. — Bruce Gilden

And in the Highlands finding the prize less rewarding than the chase, growing into manhood on a copper crown throne, wrestling with the mundane from plague to famine, building an economy like a swordsman builds muscle, recruiting, training, and for what? To have some preordained emperor trample it beneath his heel on his march to the Gilden Gate. I — Mark Lawrence

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. — Bruce Gilden

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph — Bruce Gilden

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be. — Bruce Gilden

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while. — Bruce Gilden

Do not wish your life away, " Grandfather would tell her. "None of us know the number of days we are allotted. It would be foolish to discard any of them. — Tracie Peterson

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them. — Bruce Gilden

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. — Christopher Meloni

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record. — Isaac Slade

Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection. — Donald Horne

The Lights ... " said Norv the Raw, as if we might not have noticed.
Before any further statements of the obvious could be made doors of gleaming steel started to slide down from recesses above every entrance above the Gilden Gate. The action accompanied by a squealing noise that set my teeth on edge, the sound of nails down Lundist's chalkboard.
"The doors ... " said Norv. I resisted temptation to beat him around the head. — Mark Lawrence

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me. — Maxine Hong Kingston

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get. — Bruce Gilden