Imagery Quotes
151 quotes by 138 authors
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The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the…
— Michael Parenti
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect…
— Leonard Bishop
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The life of the consciousness is boundless. It interpenetrates the world and is woven in all its imagery. Therefore, we must listen closely to our…
— Oskar Kokoschka
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The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths,…
— David Perkins
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I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere…
— M. Ward
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared…
— John Ruskin
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The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.…
— Kathryn Stripling Byer
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I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into…
— Robert Patrick
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Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say…
— Alicia Keys
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Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke…
— Miriam Schapiro
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Words are tools of imagery in motion,
— Sam Shepard
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Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has…
— Lena Olin
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If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using…
— Carol P. Christ
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Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is…
— Carol P. Christ
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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
— Marina Warner
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
— William James
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When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an apocalyptic feeling, as if I…
— Roisin Murphy
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The type of adverts to be found on television and in glossy magazines are visually designed to have a power over the mind before they…
— Mat Collishaw
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The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
— Daniel B. Shapiro
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Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a…
— Mari Evans
Who Wrote These Imagery Quotes
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