Landscape Quotes · Page 13

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

There's a certain breed of actors who has been always experimenting irrespective of the social landscape for the mediums of entertainment.

— Arjun Mathur

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your…

— Frans Lanting

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

— Richard Serra

I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but…

— George L. Carlson

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

— Ryan Phillippe

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others,…

— Lydia M. Child

The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie…

— John Burroughs

More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in…

— Fei-Fei Li

The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of…

— Aleksandra Mir

What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What…

— George Nelson

I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled…

— Catherynne M. Valente

With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the…

— Matthew Heineman

In most natural scenes there is a prevailing colour, which the landscape painter must learn to identify, and which must prevail also…

— Walter J. Phillips

I really only write about inner landscapes and most people don't see them, because they see practically nothing within, because they think…

— Thomas Bernhard

“I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood. An infant who has just learned to hold up his head has a frank…

— Annie Dillard

“Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if…

— Vladimir Nabokov

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the…

— Wade Davis

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so…

— Aaron Levie

The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous…

— Terry Tempest Williams

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be…

— N. Scott Momaday

I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off…

— Peter Matthiessen

The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your…

— John Dufresne

It is only by walking in the digital footsteps of your customer that you can uncover a new landscape of opportunities for…

— Brian Solis

I guess for me - in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that…

— Zack Snyder

If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in…

— W. H. Auden

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

— Candice Patton

I think 'Hand to God' is going to change the landscape of Broadway. I think Broadway, truthfully, will never be the same.

— Geneva Carr

Walkman was the precursor to the cell phone, in terms of your strategy for getting through the urban landscape and the modern…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

— Machado de Assis

“The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.”

— Walter Benjamin

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

— Michael Emerson

I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and…

— Oprah Winfrey

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

— Derek Walcott

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].

— Zachary Quinto