The California tract houses are like the mundane meeting the mystical. Sometimes if you're driving at twilight, and you see those houses,… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
I look at a pilot and go, "I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or… — Frank Horvat Copy Share Image
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded… — Helen Van Slyke Copy Share Image
The word humility (also human) is derived from the Latin humus, meaning the soil. Perhaps this is not simply because it entails… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a… — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The… — Mark Klett Copy Share Image
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces can only… — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
“Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Many people forget that magick is all about change, and the greatest change is the inner, not the outer, landscape. Outer magickal… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp.… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“This land pulses with life. It breathes in me; it breathes around me; it breathes in spite of me. When I walk… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
People get bored of hearing the same genre of music over and over again. Observe the current musical landscape and predict what… — Wendy Starland Copy Share Image
Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and… — Tim Benton Copy Share Image
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
The history of our country has been driven by a Judeo-Christian worldview, and so that has dominated the landscape. So it's important… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Orkney has the kind of landscape that sort of lends itself to a relationship with the people. I think that relationship is… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
In The Jack Daniels Sessions, folktales and modern landscapes collide, exploding and reforming in the form of an intriguing and intelligent collection.… — Cat Rambo Copy Share Image
While Jesus is saving, I'm spending all my daysin backgrounds and landscapes with the languages of saints.While people are spinning like toys… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on… — Lee Krasner Copy Share Image
Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene,… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image