Haas Quotes & Sayings

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive. — Chili Davis

I was ranked No in the world and then I was out for months between my shoulder surgery and my parents getting in a motorcycle accident in , — Tommy Haas

I think Curtis is finally getting his drive back, his passion for the game, ... I think he's starting to enjoy that competition again. That's what drives us all out here that feeling of being able to hit a good shot in a tough situation. — Jay Haas

I was nervous starting off today. I was nervous because I felt like I was going to play good and shoot a good round. I was trying to calm myself down. This race is a long race. The eagle at two was helped, but I was trying not to be too eager. — Jay Haas

I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks. — Laila Robins

The way I've been playing, I didn't really care who I was going to be playing first round. — Tommy Haas

It's such an ugly time, beauty is the real protest. — Robert Haas

Life without music can only be seen in black and white. It takes music to add the color. — Jessie Haas

My name is CHL. That's Charles Haas Layfield. — Charlie Haas

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc. — Lukas Haas

I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. — Lukas Haas

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you. — Ernst Haas

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style. — Lukas Haas

A word is elegy to what it signifies. — Robert Haas

The best zoom lens is your legs. — Ernst Haas

Some pieces couldn't be glued back together. Some people weren't for fixing.
Sometimes, the only thing to do was burn the whole fucking world down and start again. — Abigail Haas

You should be able to have good matches against anybody. — Charlie Haas

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school. — Lukas Haas

After the murderous attacks on September 11th, I had an overwhelming need to know what people hated most about America so we arranged to go to Disney World. — Scott Haas

If you ask Jim Courier, I mean, that guy has his tongue up (Roger Federer's) ass, I think ... you know, the whole time when you actually listen to him commentating or listen to him talk about Roger Federer. Sometimes makes me sick almost. — Tommy Haas

The Haas is here! And you can't see me! — Charlie Haas

Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create ... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing? — Ernst Haas

Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters. — Charlie Haas

I can't help my mind skipping over the here-and-now and racing on, to what might come next. Consequence and regret and other might-have-beens: plotting out every angle and scenario, knowing all along that the path I take means missing something else. — Abigail Haas

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature. — Ernst Haas

In the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed. — Ernst Haas

The hillsides and Alps looked as if they'd been sculpted and freshly seeded. Nothing appeared to be placed at random. The world is out of control, but the Swiss had purpose. They derived life's meaning from geography. — Scott Haas

He wanted to believe it was of the Agency's unwritten protocol; the less you know about your associates, the better it is for both of you professionally — Derek Haas

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it. — Ernst Haas

Memory and imagination are only a knife edge apart, and I wonder if I'm making it all up: slipping false memories in among the real ones, just to have something to hold onto. Fools gold. — Abigail Haas

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot. — Ernst Haas

I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures. — Ernst Haas

History is told by those who win. — Abigail Haas

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are. — Ernst Haas

From the moment you're born, people start folding you into neat pieces and tucking you inside a box of their own design. No, it starts even before then, the moment the sonogram shows a faded blur. Blue for a boy, tractors and race-cars, big and strong and brave. Pink for a little princess, pretty and sweet. They dress you up in their own expectations, before you even have a chance to understand the constrictions of your fate. That box becomes so cosy and warm, you never really notice that you're bent double, fighting for room to breathe. I — Abigail Haas

An omen for Haas was not sacred. An omen like a snowy owl wasn't a secret message sent from Heaven but Haas still felt blessed whenever a snowy owl crossed his path. For a snowy owl is a creature of great beauty... The more times the snowy owl crossed his path the more he loved it. Haas had no interest in sacred omens. It was the profane omens he loved. — Will Thorpe

One moment. One picture. One glimpse - that's all it takes to make someone think they know the truth. — Abigail Haas

There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult. — Ernst Haas

The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory or worse. — Scott Haas

Everything will be okay. Trust me. I don't know how many times he's said that to me, not just here in prison but my whole life. When I was scared for the first day of school, or stressed about a big test; when I fell off my bike in sixth grade and split my lip. When my mom got sick. I always believed him. He's my father, he wouldn't lie to me; he's a grown-up, he knows the truth. But now I see his promises for what they really are: hopeful prayers, a mantra he says as much to reassure himself as me. He can't fix this, not even close. — Abigail Haas

Wealth is a responsibility and the sharing of it a way of life. — Peter M. Haas

Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction. — Ernst Haas

Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure. — Ernst Haas

Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history. — Abigail Haas

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question ... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions. — Ernst Haas

I want to have fun," I said. "I'm tired of not having fun. Think about it: For five days all we'll have to do is have fun. That will be our job. No cultural sites, no cultural experiences, no foreign languages, no churches or museums or hikes or beaches, nothing but fun. I've been stressed out since September and I think going to Disney World will be the cure. — Scott Haas

Our lives are made up of choices. Big ones, small ones, strung together by the thin air of good intentions; a line of dominoes, ready to fall. Which shirt to wear on a cold winter's morning, what crappy junk food to eat for lunch. It starts out so innocently, you don't even notice: go to this party or that movie, listen to this song, or read that book, and then, somehow, you've chosen your college and career; your boyfriend or wife. — Abigail Haas

Parker Haas, crying Omaha, and his sleepless Rose. — Charlie Huston

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through. — Jay Haas

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it. — Lukas Haas

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. — Ernst Haas

Is photography art? ... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word. — Ernst Haas

You don't take pictures, the good ones happen to you. — Ernst Haas

These walks in the country forced us to establish a good marching rhythm that was specific to our family. Each year we walked a little faster until as adolescents the children came to outpace us. Every family has its own pace and way of doing things that can be discovered only by walking together without being in much of a hurry. — Scott Haas

It's cool to play a sinister bad guy who also has a human side. — Lukas Haas

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? — Ernst Haas

They called to tell me that I was going to be returning to RAW. I left immediately to run home and tell Jackie. She said, I have some news for you-I'm expecting. — Charlie Haas

Don't park ... Arrival is the death of inspiration. — Ernst Haas

The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances ... a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture. — Ernst Haas

Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie. — Lukas Haas

You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography. — Ernst Haas

I finally realized that I had to embrace the madness, let it transform me instead of letting it define me.

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"You, my ferocious girl, are embracing the madness. Lean into it, won't ya? — R.L. Haas

I love to read theories without ever using them when working ... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse. — Ernst Haas

My mom shows me her old yearbooks, and there are tons of people in there she doesn't talk to anymore. Old boyfriends, best friends ... What do you think happened to them?"
"Maybe they drifted apart."
"That's stupid. You don't drift, not if someone matters to you."
"So maybe they didn't matter, not really."
"Anna?"
"Yeah?"
"I'd never do that. Leave you."
"I know. Me either. — Abigail Haas

He truth is, we made each other, like we learned about in science class. Symbiosis. — Abigail Haas

Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him. — Charlie Haas

We're all irrevocably trapped inside our own minds: just as it's impossible for anyone to truly know us, we can't begin to hope to know anyone else. — Abigail Haas

Statistically, you can take two people, give them the same quantity of God's Word, and the one with the most Christian friends will be the one who's most likely to apply it. So the real question we need to ask ourselves is this, "Are we intimately connected with other people in the body of Christ?" If not, it doesn't matter how many sermons or worship experiences you ingest. You have very low odds of actually changing. — Peter Haas

Don't you know? There's no such thing as the truth.' Oliver yawned. 'We all walk around trapped in our own subjective consciousness, experiencing the same events through a totally different lens. — Abigail Haas

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing. — Lukas Haas

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point. — Ernst Haas

Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission. — Harald Haas

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself. — Ernst Haas

I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed. — Lukas Haas

After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle.
We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart.
We're wrong. — Abigail Haas

A low budget is uncomfortable. — Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas. — Lukas Haas

I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion. — Daniel Boulud

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe. — Ernst Haas

Without clean water, we cannot experience optimum health, but by practically every public health standard issued during the past 50 years, humans have not experienced optimum health. One of the reasons for this fact is simple: the Earth's water is in crisis. — Elson M. Haas

You look back and you always think you can probably do something better. — Tommy Haas

I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close. — Lukas Haas

Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility. — Ernst Haas

Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent ... the camera ... — Ernst Haas

The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts. — David Haas

To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space. — Ernst Haas

Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough? — Abigail Haas

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff. — Lukas Haas

I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye ... — Ernst Haas

We're all strangers, in the end. — Abigail Haas

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries. — Lukas Haas

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall. — Ernst Haas

The most important lens you have is your legs — Ernst Haas

I want to tell them all; the world is bigger than high school. — Abigail Haas

The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos. — Ernst Haas

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are. — Ernst Haas

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new. — Ernst Haas

You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes. — Ernst Haas

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'. — Ernst Haas

Now, for the first time, I wonder if this is how my mother felt. If cancer was her prison; the chemo treatments, torture. I understand it. I would rather die. — Abigail Haas