Mediums Quotes
769 quotes by 662 authors
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People talk about medium. What is your medium? My medium as a writer has been dirt, clay, sand--what I could touch, hold, stand on, and…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a…
— Seth Godin
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— Terry Pratchett
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The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.
— Milan Kundera
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Medium clever,†Simon acknowledged. “Like a cross between George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven and those MythBusters guys, but, you know, better-looking.†“I’m always so glad…
— Cassandra Clare
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
— James Gleick
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Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for communication with the dead, including our dead selves, the…
— Frank Lentricchia
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Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by…
— Nicholas Sparks
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As the children were sitting there eating pears, a girl came walking along the road from town. When she saw the children she stopped and…
— Astrid Lindgren
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She smiled. "I need your opinion," she said. "What do you think about something sleeveless for this weekend? With a cinched waist and a medium…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so…
— Bertrand Russell
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With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down and read every…
— Francine Prose
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We don’t ask why God chose as his prophet a stutterer with a public speaking phobia. But we should. The book of Exodus is short…
— Susan Cain
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I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling. I desire the company…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The film medium is some sort of magic. I think also it's a magic that every frame comes and stands still for a fraction of…
— Ingmar Bergman
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They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think…
— Jane Yolen
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All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly…
— Neil Gaiman
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The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them out to acountants,…
— Grant Morrison
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But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never…
— Stephen King
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