Images Quotes

1175 Images quotes by 862 unique authors

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the… — Sam Abell
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh… — Naomi Wolf
He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that… — George Saunders
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. — Vic Braden
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color… — Jack Nicklaus
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms,… — Djuna Barnes
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can… — Joshua Reynolds
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories. — Karen Bass
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our… — Ray Kurzweil
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to… — Emma Thompson
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. — Jim Rohn
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. — Luigi Pirandello
Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden… — A. Whitney Brown
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images… — Clement of Alexandria
The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe. — Clement of Alexandria
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you… — Clement of Alexandria
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe,… — Tertullian
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. — Bede Griffiths

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