Images Quotes
1175 Images quotes by 862 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
— Vic Braden
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
— Jim Rohn
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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