“...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I saw Ben Stiller's movie Walter Mitty [2013]; it's very beautiful. You look at some of the movies John Ford did with… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery.… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I've been able to tour because of my music and I've learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think… — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
The great thing about visual horror films is there's real potential for strong, beautiful imagery. It's the one genre that really lends… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. It was alive with moonlight, translucent, a shard of crystal so… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“Much of what we have been doing to improve the world's opinion of us has had the contrary effect. Audio-visual aids which… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are some people who believe that dreams really are just kind of a throwaway thing. They are just a way of… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography. — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
“The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“And the darkness of John's sin was like the darkness of the church on Saturday evenings[...] It was like his thoughts as… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and… — Will Cotton Copy Share Image
I always write the lyrics first. There are one or two exceptions over the years, but that's pretty much the way it's… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image