Quotes of: Picture-book Keyword

Nothing so removes a man from his inner, mysterious, real life, nothing makes him so deaf and dumb as the picture of these petty passions and petty crimes which calls itself the world of politics.

Vladimir Odoevsky

It's such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you'd just have a screen test, and they'd say, 'Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,' and you'd just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever.

Vinessa Shaw

I was astounded to learn that Alaskan caves might be hiding secrets about the earliest people ever to enter the Americas. That's when I began to picture a story that would start with kayaking and lead into the caves.

Will Hobbs

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.

William Perry

When I'm not doing the show, and the work has stopped, I walk into a restaurant and I'm shy; yet, when I'm in the show, when people come up with their phones and want to take my picture, I can handle it because it's almost like I'm wearing an armour.

Anthony Warlow

Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

Caspar David Friedrich

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the ...

Elizabeth Peyton

Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes ...

Steve Buscemi

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

Temple Grandin

I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Chris...

Raf Simons

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

He stopped moving among the shelves. She stopped as well and scanned the books around her. 'Such a glorious perfume, these old books.

The Clockwork Crown

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.

In the City of Shy Hunters

Daughter A sprinkle of sparkle, A dazzle of sweet, A flutter of cute, From your head to your feet.

Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

Each month is gay, Each season nice, When eating Chicken soup With rice

Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

The Coming Race

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

The guy in your book? I’m that guy,” “I’ve never done any of the stuff in that book,” she said, “But I want to. I’ve wanted to for a while.

Dare to Resist