Framing Quotes
46 quotes by 43 authors
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Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save…
— Richard Whately
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while…
— A. A. Gill
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For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But…
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me:…
— Roland Barthes
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Like a pane of glass framing and subtly distorting our vision, mental models determine what we see.
— Peter Senge
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the…
— Barbara Kruger
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be,…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in…
— James Madison
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The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their…
— Simon Mainwaring
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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and…
— Steven Pinker
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After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the…
— Eliot Spitzer
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The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
— Evelyn Waugh
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.…
— James Madison
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We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the Constitution of our land
— Lorenzo Snow
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I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair…
— L.A. Weatherly
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I was thinking about framing, and how so much of what we think about our lives and our personal histories revolves around how we frame…
— Kiersten White
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Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.
— Christian de Portzamparc
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Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
— Teju Cole
Who Wrote These Framing Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 46 Framing Quotes, led by these top contributors: