Presenting Quotes
186 quotes by 180 authors
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This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under…
— Cennino Cennini
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Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of…
— Kathy Acker
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The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson…
— Jim Shepard
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There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
— Antonio Machado
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TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,…
— Neil Postman
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I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I never rule anything out. I'm an entertainer. Be it presenting, singing, acting, I just do things I love.
— Martine McCutcheon
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I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't…
— Stephen Root
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The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld,…
— Jess C Scott
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We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The…
— Allison Williams
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In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy…
— Alice Hegan Rice
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these…
— Aaron Sorkin
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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not…
— Diane Wakoski
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I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring,…
— Bryan Adams
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Sometimes I have a tough time getting along with myself. When I was a child, I needed a lot of attention... and I don't have…
— Ron Ben-Israel
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I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
— Lesley Garrett
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With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.
— Lena Headey
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To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up…
— Jaime Hernandez
Who Wrote These Presenting Quotes
180 authors contributed a total of 186 Presenting Quotes, led by these top contributors: