John Sexton quote: "For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."

It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results w...
JOHN SEXTON

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that r...
JOHN SEXTON

When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate...
JOHN SEXTON

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints...
JOHN SEXTON

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in t...
JOHN SEXTON

One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he a...
JOHN SEXTON

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never ...
JOHN SEXTON

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because th...
JOHN SEXTON

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arn...
JOHN SEXTON

Improving the mental health of our children in this and future generations will assure and enhance t...
JOHN SEXTON

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color...
JOHN SEXTON

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and jus...
JOHN SEXTON

The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the st...
JOHN SEXTON

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your ...
JOHN SEXTON

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more f...
JOHN SEXTON

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to pho...
JOHN SEXTON

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera...
JOHN SEXTON

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And fo...
JOHN SEXTON

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photogr...
JOHN SEXTON

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming...
JOHN SEXTON

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being s...
JOHN SEXTON

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a v...
JOHN SEXTON

I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we ...
ANNE SEXTON

The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come vis...
ANNE SEXTON

It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers.
ANNE SEXTON

I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
ANNE SEXTON

As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
E...
ANNE SEXTON

Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surger...
ANNE SEXTON

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
ANNE SEXTON

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON

The joy that isn't shared dies young.
ANNE SEXTON

O yellow eye,
let me be sick with your heat,
let me be feverish and frowning.
ANNE SEXTON

As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
ANNE SEXTON

Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
ANNE SEXTON

My brother's an aerospace engineer who works for Boeing, and I started thinking, 'Well, my b...
BRENT SEXTON

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
ANNE SEXTON

You want to make sure, if you've got those little ones, that you have enough entertainment.
ANN SEXTON

After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lo...
ANN SEXTON

That can vary from refrigerator-to-refrigerator obviously... if it's a good working refrigerator, 24...
ANN SEXTON

The American Red Cross recommends that you have (a minimum of) a gallon of water per family member i...
ANN SEXTON

Do you like me?”
No answer.
Silence bounced, fell off his tongue
and sat between us...
ANNE SEXTON

I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
ANNE SEXTON

My dear it was a moment to clutch at for a moment so that you may beleve in it and believing is the ...
ANNE SEXTON

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
ANNE SEXTON

I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and ...
ANNE SEXTON

My dear it was a momentto clutch at for a momentso that you may beleve in itand believing is the act...
ANNE SEXTON

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.Then the a...
ANNE SEXTON

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.
BRENT SEXTON

The Harrier is one of the most exciting aircrafts to see.
BRIAN SEXTON

You are 100 feet away from the $30 million fighter jets.
BRIAN SEXTON

It's a good environment for training exercises until large-bodied aircraft start controlling the air...
BRIAN SEXTON

It's possible because traffic is not dependent on airline service. We anticipate it getting busier.
BRIAN SEXTON

We were receiving upwards of 100 a month in 1999 and 2000.
BRIAN SEXTON

It comes as no surprise. Airport traffic is steadily increasing, and we're 99 percent leased out of ...
BRIAN SEXTON

It wouldn't be realistic to continue to expect them to drop.
BRIAN SEXTON

[If monetary incentives are minimal, what are our other appeals?] What we try to sell, ... is the qu...
BRENDA SEXTON

It's 'Prison Break' that was the real break for us,
BRENDA SEXTON

The filming of 'Prison Break' alone -- half at Joliet Penitentiary and half in downtown Chicago -- w...
BRENDA SEXTON

New York enjoys film production revenues of $500 million, and Toronto rakes in $1 billion annually. ...
BRENDA SEXTON

We have seen other programs start Hall of Fame's and it was time. We have a rich tradition here and ...
BILL SEXTON

Tyler's record speaks for itself. He now has 110 wins and stands in third place on our all-time list...
BILL SEXTON

Mike had a solid tournament again this year, making it to the finals for the second straight time. A...
BILL SEXTON

Caleb is having a real solid season for us this year. That was a big win for him in the finals over ...
BILL SEXTON

We did our jobs, and we got to come home. Some of us got to come home.
BILL SEXTON

We hurt ourselves bad with the errors there. You just can't give teams four or five outs in an innin...
BILL SEXTON

Once Tyler got thrown to his back there and it became a throw-or-be-thrown match, it was tough for h...
BILL SEXTON

Mike has had a really strong season this year and for it to culminate with a state medal is really g...
BILL SEXTON

We had plenty of chances, but we just didn't capitalize. We loaded the bases with nobody out and can...
BILL SEXTON

I think we helped them in the first inning with the double error. That inning is over with no runs i...
BILL SEXTON

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
ANNE SEXTON

I love the word 'juxtapose,' ... I like balancing words together like cruel and gentle, sad and beau...
CHARLIE SEXTON

Death's in the good-bye.
ANNE SEXTON

Everybody was telling me, 'Man, that's your dream job,' when I got the gig with Bob, ... I know I'll...
CHARLIE SEXTON

Everybody likes to start the New Year out with a little good news.
STEVE SEXTON

Cruel and Gentle Things
CHARLIE SEXTON

Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging ...
ANNE SEXTON

Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your ne...
ANNE SEXTON

I was OK until that roof fell off. I was terrified then. Otherwise it hasn't been too bad. People ar...
ANICE SEXTON

Live or die, but don't poison everything.
ANNE SEXTON

Words

Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
ANNE SEXTON

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.
ANNE SEXTON

I understand addiction now. I never did before, you know. How could a man (or a woman) do something ...
MARIE SEXTON

Regular Guitar Player Guy
CHARLIE SEXTON

I was so broke. I was just trying to keep it going, keep the band going and writing all the time. .....
CHARLIE SEXTON

I write in big batches,
CHARLIE SEXTON

The program has grown under Student Government progress, ... With transportation on campus, the tran...
STEVE SEXTON

Our interest will be over time,
STEVE SEXTON

We still have much to do in the aftermath of the tornado, but we are confident that Ellis Park will ...
STEVE SEXTON

Increasing the price to the customer is typically not a good idea. We're not in favor of a 'take-out...
STEVE SEXTON

I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.
W...
ANNE SEXTON

And opening my eyes I am afraid of course
to look--this inward look that society scorns--
St...
ANNE SEXTON

I've grown tired of love
You are the trouble with me
I watch you walk right by
ANNE SEXTON

My dear it was a moment
to clutch at for a moment
so that you may beleve in it
and belie...
ANNE SEXTON

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
ANNE SEXTON

Even without wars, life is dangerous.
ANNE SEXTON

Death's in the good-bye.
ANNE SEXTON

In a dream you are never eighty
ANNE SEXTON

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's sa...
ANNE SEXTON

The job description is you got to run inside, you got to run outside and you got to be able to catch...
BILLY SEXTON

Ever wanting. Ever longing. Never-ending blue, ... So I'll take the inspiration with the gloom becau...
CHARLIE SEXTON

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
ANNE SEXTON

[Nothing has felt more natural, Sexton says, than stepping to the console side of the big glass wind...
CHARLIE SEXTON

When all that 'pretty boy' stuff started, I was like, 'Me?', ... I thought of myself as a weird-look...
CHARLIE SEXTON

He casually comes to the (3-point) line and launches.
STAN SEXTON

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
ANNE SEXTON

We'll start training him here. We'll get him three quarters fit and send him to Nick at Palm Meadows...
ED SEXTON

Natalie did a great job calling the game for me, and I'm just glad it all worked out with the wind b...
TATUM SEXTON

In Ireland we have the phenomenon known as a "Spoiled Priest." Unlike a spoiled child, this does not...
J.P. SEXTON

We opened the competition and he's responded, great. He's doing what we wanted.
BILLY SEXTON

Joe Surratt is a talented guy who needed to get his blocking better, and he made improvement in that...
BILLY SEXTON

At that point, he could have pouted. He didn't. He fought back and won the job back.
BILLY SEXTON

Through all of our seasons this will be certain; this will be constant, shining and true:
with ...
ROBERT SEXTON

I will ask no more of life than this:
that I might love you through all my days,
and that ...
ROBERT SEXTON

Across the years I will walk with you -
in deep green forests; on shores of sand:
and when...
ROBERT SEXTON

There is no moment of my life when you are not a part of me; you hold my heart; you guard my soul; ...
ROBERT SEXTON

Rather than focusing on their strengths and weaknesses, we're going to focus on what we have to do w...
BILL SEXTON

We could've and should've beaten them by a wider margin. The truth is we're still getting better. Ei...
BILL SEXTON

In order for something to be remembered, a story must be told.
N.T. SEXTON

I've grown tired of loveYou are the trouble with meI watch you walk right by
ANNE SEXTON

We were trying to nail this one song, but the feel was all wrong,
CHARLIE SEXTON

You've got some big ears,
CHARLIE SEXTON

[The last of the album's 10 songs is] It Don't Take Long, ... Beat's So Lonely.
CHARLIE SEXTON

Gospel.
CHARLIE SEXTON

That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t...
ANNE SEXTON

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
ANNE SEXTON

I love the word 'juxtapose,' ... I like balancing words together like cruel and gentle, sad and bea...
CHARLIE SEXTON

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions s...
BRENT SEXTON

I came over and she told me she was planning to admit herself the next day, ... I was kind of taken ...
ANNE SEXTON

The board and officers are very involved, and some employees felt it was not appropriate and chose n...
DEBORAH SEXTON

Susan is an accomplished fundraiser who will help the Foundation explore non-traditional funding sou...
DEBORAH SEXTON

She is very well-known and well-respected. She became so well-known for giving back her time through...
DEBORAH SEXTON

And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten...
ANNE SEXTON

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
ANNE SEXTON

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to ke...
ANNE SEXTON

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnede...
ANNE SEXTON

Fee-fi-fo-fum, now I'm borrowed, now I'm numb.
ANNE SEXTON

I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.
ANNE SEXTON

KELİMELER

Kelimelere dikkat et,
Özellikle mucizevi olanlara.
Mucizevi olanlar...
ANNE SEXTON

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
ANNE SEXTON

…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…
ANNE SEXTON

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.
ANNE SEXTON

We just don't have a lot of subs. I have a good core of guys returning (but) we have a lot of inexpe...
DAVE SEXTON

Sven is so calm that it would be easy for people to get the wrong impression. He has made mistakes, ...
DAVE SEXTON

The boys have come out and worked hard to understand my system, my style. It's going to be a learnin...
DAVE SEXTON

His body hasn't filled into his bones yet. Everything's not maturing as quickly as it could be. The ...
ED SEXTON

He said no. The fractions in the Travers, they were walking. It was a race from the half-mile pole. ...
ED SEXTON

Everything's not maturing as quickly as it could be. The injury's very minute, but it's time-consumi...
ED SEXTON

I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot descr...
ANNE SEXTON

I realized something on the ride. I realized if I wait until I'm not scared to try new things, then ...
MARIE SEXTON

We'll try to hold off as long as we can. We're crossing our fingers.
MARK SEXTON

Each night I am nailed into place
and forget who I am.
Daddy?
That's another kind of...
ANNE SEXTON

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
ANNE SEXTON

Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.
ANNE SEXTON

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking ab...
ANNE SEXTON

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That...
ANNE SEXTON

Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.
ANNE SEXTON

And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in th...
ANNE SEXTON

Yet love enters my blood like an I.V.,
dripping in its little white moments.
ANNE SEXTON

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting...
ANNE SEXTON

Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen....
ANNE SEXTON

O starry night, This is how I want to die
ANNE SEXTON

Wanting to Die

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, u...
ANNE SEXTON

Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like...
ANNE SEXTON

Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings
ANNE SEXTON

I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of...
ANNE SEXTON

Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.
ANNE SEXTON

Anne, I don't want to live. . . . Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even expl...
ANNE SEXTON

Maybe something good will come from this yet.
JOY SEXTON

We had our son back after a week on the IV.
JOY SEXTON

We didn't know whether he would ever come out of it.
JOY SEXTON

There's a lot of strength to build back.
JOY SEXTON

He never stopped believing. That's his dream.
JOY SEXTON

I have the son that I know back. A little tired, but...
JOY SEXTON

I’d won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map.
ANNE SEXTON

Deer was always the centerpiece of this, and I think [leaving them out] will tremendously hamstring ...
ROB SEXTON

I suffer for birds and fireflies
but not frogs, she said,
and threw him across the room. ANNE SEXTON

The summer has seized you,
as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw
lemons as large as your de...
ANNE SEXTON

This definitely gives me more confidence and I'm sure it does for our offense.
WYATT SEXTON

Need is not quite belief.
ANNE SEXTON

While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and t...
BRENDAN SEXTON III

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I ge...
BRENDAN SEXTON III

When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest th...
BRENDAN SEXTON III

The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.
BRENDAN SEXTON III

I'm so proud of you," she said, and she supposed she was, or she would have been if her sister hadn'...
MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

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For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.

John Sexton

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