Prism Quotes

62 quotes by 57 authors

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our… — Ellen Goodman
... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on… — Wallace Stegner
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not… — Jorge Luis Borges
Love is the chariot of emotion which takes us to our beloved. When we love we see beyond the prism of illusion. — Frederick Lenz
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from… — Frederick Lenz
There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations. So there are… — Frederick Lenz
How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light… — Kathleen Battle
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never… — Michio Kaku
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism. — J D Hayworth
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. — Chuck Klosterman
And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun… — Donna Tartt
I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law. — Harry Hamlin
Do you wish to learn the secret of true Eucharistic prayer? Consider, then, all the mysteries in the light of the Blessed Sacrament. It is… — Peter Julian Eymard
If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their… — Frederick Lenz
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as… — Kathy Griffin
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. — Charles Dickens
I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism. — Bruce Dickinson
You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman… — Gary Oldman
We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. — Queen Rania of Jordan
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a… — Anna Deavere Smith

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