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Images Quotes by Joan Didion
- We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of…
- I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to…
- We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which…
More Images Quotes
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams
- These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...… — Ansel Adams
- The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard
- I think of images as an immune system and a transit system. — Lynda Barry
- My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images… — Rob Bell
- And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
- Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr
- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin