Mccurry Quotes & Sayings

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity. — Mike McCurry

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all. — Steve McCurry

I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories. — Steve McCurry

In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon. — Steve McCurry

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues. — Mike McCurry

By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space. — Mike McCurry

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. — Mike McCurry

To become a photographer leave your house first. — Steve McCurry

remember how they tracked down that green-eyed Afghan girl? And she's now a leather-faced crone? Because her life went from misery and shit to more monotonous and meaningless misery and shit, while her famous photo went 'round and 'round the world making that McCurry guy famous? I say we do it. — Lidia Yuknavitch

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself. — Mike McCurry

Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face. — Steve McCurry

Some of the great pictures happen along the journey and not necessarily at your destination. — Steve McCurry

If you wait, people will forget your camera, and the soul will drift up into view. — Steve McCurry

President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground. — Mike McCurry

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story. — Steve McCurry

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker. — Mike McCurry

Both terrorism and insurance sell fear
and business is business — Liam McCurry

If you want to be a photographer, first leave home — Steve McCurry

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry

In India in particular, where millions have no home but the streets, virtually every life event is carried out in public: prayer, eating, sleeping, nursing, crude dentistry, even bodily functions. In the secular West, where nothing is sacred, everything seems hidden; yet in Asia, where nothing is hidden, everything is sacred. — Steve McCurry

It's important for you to spend your time photographing things that matter to you. You need to understand the things that have meaning to you, and not what others think is important for you. — Steve McCurry

I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in. — Steve McCurry

Several Terminal Policy readers got together to tell Raker jokes:
- Raker CAN piss into the wind.
- Raker donates a lot of blood to the Red Cross
just never his own.
- Superman wears Raker pajamas.
- When Raker jumps into the pool, he doesn't get wet
the pool gets Raker.
- Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Raker THREW her there!!
- Raker's daughter lost her virginity ... he got it back.
- Raker doesn't cheat death, he wins fair and square.
- Raker turns on a light at night ... not because he's afraid of the dark but because the dark is afraid of him.
- When the boogy man goes to bed he checks under his bed for Raker.
- Don't tread on Raker's cape! — Liam McCurry

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change. — Mike McCurry

For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope ( ... )Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life. — Steve McCurry

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already. — Mike McCurry

The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time. — Steve McCurry

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost. — Mike McCurry

What matters most is that each picture stands on its own, with its own place and feeling. — Steve McCurry

Unconsciously, I think I watch for a look, an expression, features or nostalgia that can summarize or more accurately reveal life. — Steve McCurry

If you want to be a photographer, you have to photograph — Steve McCurry

A still photograph is something which you can always go back to. You can put it on your wall and look at it again and again. Because it is that frozen moment. I think it tends to burn into your psyche. It becomes ingrained in your mind. A powerful picture becomes iconic of a place or a time or a situation. — Steve McCurry

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society. — Mike McCurry