Eastman Kodak Quotes

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The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words. ~ Elliott Erwitt

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. ~ Leo Baekeland

Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die. ~ Rebecca McNutt

Kids started having their own cameras, en masse, in the 1960s. Kodak Instamatics, which came out in 1963, were inexpensive ($16) and easy to use, durable and small, the perfect size to fit in a child's pocket or the upper tray of a footlocker on its way to summer camp. The Instagram logo, in a conscious nod, echoes the look of the early Instamatics - a dark stripe on top, metallic on the bottom, with a round flat lens and viewfinder in the middle. The ~ Nancy Jo Sales

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition. ~ Gordon Parks

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force. ~ Max Eastman

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ~ Max Eastman

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist. ~ Max Eastman

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind. ~ George Eastman

In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family. ~ Trey Songz

You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort! ~ P.D. Eastman

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life. ~ George Eastman

Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but always being a part of you. ~ Carol Ann Albright-Eastman

I have not cared to pile up more dry bones, but to clothe them with flesh and blood. ~ Charles Alexander Eastman

In 1962 the president of the American Historical Association, Carl Bridenbaugh, warned his colleagues that human existence was undergoing a "Great Mutation" - so sudden and so radical "that we are now suffering something like historical amnesia." He lamented the decline of reading; the distancing from nature (which he blamed in part on "ugly yellow Kodak boxes" and "the transistor radio everywhere"); and the loss of shared culture. ~ James Gleick

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives. ~ George Eastman

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior. ~ Crystal Eastman

Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle. ~ Crystal Eastman

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. ~ Crystal Eastman

Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself ... ~ Rebecca McNutt

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature. ~ Charles Eastman

In 2009, I went to Cannes with a short film in the Kodak emerging program at the American Pavilion. ~ Ryan Coogler

Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life. ~ Charles Eastman

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! ~ Charles Eastman

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity. ~ Charles Eastman

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. ~ Max Eastman

It seems obvious to me now – though I have been slow, I must say, in coming to the conclusion – that the institution of private property is one of the main things that have given man that limited amount of free-and-equalness that Marx hoped to render infinite by abolishing this institution. Strangely enough Marx was the first to see this. He is the one who informed us, looking backwards, that the evolution of private capitalism with its free market had been a precondition for the evolution of all our democratic freedoms. It never occurred to him, looking forward, that if this was so, these other freedoms might disappear with the abolition of the free market. ~ Max Eastman

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. ~ Charles Eastman

If you have a choice, choose kindness. ~ Mary Meade Eastman

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. ~ Charles Eastman

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy. ~ Charles Eastman

With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul. ~ Crystal Eastman