Mediums Quotes · Page 28

I never thought of being a performer, never thought of being a singer, never thought of being a photographer. It's just the…

— Patti Smith

Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and…

— Peter Block

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving…

— Mark Bernstein

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.…

— Karl Urban

There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for…

— Aaron Zigman

I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with…

— Khoi Vinh

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I feel every medium of art needs to heal to some degree. It can't live in it's own void, and this came…

— Masiela Lusha

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now,…

— Ivan Krastev

I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to…

— Fran Kranz

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a…

— Vaclav Havel

The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable,…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with…

— Yoko Ono

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or…

— Flannery O'Connor

I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents…

— Walker Evans

I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar…

— Paul Schrader

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked…

— Elizabeth McCracken

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

— Truman Capote

I would definitely not rule out doing television, in the future, because I think it's a great medium for telling stories.

— Chris Pratt

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

— Michael Jackson

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and…

— Peter Cushing

Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because…

— Kirsten Lepore

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

— Margaret Visser

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

— Lord Chesterfield

I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people…

— Jonathan Meades

Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting…

— Isaac Newton

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

— Joss Whedon

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying…

— Atom Egoyan

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

No movie becomes a hit without good reviews and word-of-mouth. No agency ever became a great brand by merely saying it was…

— Rochelle B Lazarus

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions…

— David Suzuki

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity…

— Jackie Cooper

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them…

— Mamoru Hosoda

Yog is not only about Rog Mukti but also Bhog Mukti. Yoga can be our cultural ambassador. We can reach out to…

— Narendra Modi

I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from…

— Dennis Cooper

I've been very fortunate in my career to work across a lot of different mediums. I've hosted, I've narrated, I've acted in…

— Grant Bowler

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where…

— Abelardo Morell

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

— William Shenstone

Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.

— Betty Goodwin