#trait

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#camera #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #his

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#always #america #defending #difference #either

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#could #does #fill #greatest #i

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#money #portraits #professionally #you

I have a portrait of Saint Thomas More in my office. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#more #office #portrait #saint #thomas

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#collect #folded #got #guy #him

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#consequences #heroic #me #ordinary #ordinary people

I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#any #chinese #i #i am #i do

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#human #human being #i #i think #rarest