Quotes of: Motion-pictures Keyword

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

Alexandra Stoddard

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Amy Winehouse

Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.

Portia de Rossi

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Life

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

Vanessa Hudgens

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

Will McDonough

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

William Stafford

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

Wolfgang Tillmans

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

Roland Joffe

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

Irving Thalberg

Sometimes, for revenge to be as sweet and painful as it is intended, some time has to pass. Time enough that people have forgotten about past hurts and humiliations. Time enough to make the poison of bitterness consume a soul. It was to be that time....

Captive Heart

At that moment, the images in the giant sphere seemed to freeze in place as all motion suddenly ceased. The charging dragon stood transfixed with a plume of flame suspended in front of his nostrils. The knight hung motionless in mid-stride, both feet...

The Crown of Kuros

One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty much as many times as you want—sort of like a DVD of your whole life. Pause, rewind, fast-forward, slowwww motion, all day, every day.

The Catastrophic History of You and Me

This is why it's good manners to give gifts in wrappers: so that, for a moment, that beast in all of us that makes us feel alive and keeps us from becoming angels can be satisfied. While a gift is in a wrapper, it can be anything, even that one indes...

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

When her mouth found mine I disassembled. Not exploded like a bomb or anything, but came apart. A few pieces at a time. They floated away, went into a kind of orbit. A splintering galaxy. An extravagant slow motion annihilation. The only center was h...

The Dog Stars

To write a profound thought, I have to put myself onto a very special stratum, otherwise the ideas and words just don't come. I have to forget myself and at the same time be superconcentrated. But it's not a question of the will, it is a mechanism I ...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Some people come to Morganville and collapse,” Michael said as he put the car in motion. “I’ve seen it a dozen times. But there are a few who come here and just—bloom. You’re one of those.” Claire didn’t feel especially bloomy. “So yo...

Fade Out

Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Peter Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park; an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teemi...

The Fault in Our Stars

What if this is it? What if I've set a series of events into motion that will doom me to be trapped forever in some desperate monotonous life and in my last breaths, when I look back at all the mistakes I've made, I'll remember this moment, now, as t...

boom - Acting Edition

Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents...

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like ...

Message in a Bottle