Quotes of: Picturing Keyword

At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span-high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture, but a payment of two left them astounde...

The Color of Magic

I'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great power'. What would it mean, I'd asked myself, to the lives of working journalists, salaried technocrats and so on if India achieved 'great power stat...

Countdown

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had th...

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

One morning, as he sat at his desk, he heard the sound of a horse's hooves on the path outside his house. He stepped out on to the verandah. There, on a tall grey horse, sat Morgane. 'I've come to have my picture painted,' she said. She took off her ...

GIRL IN THE PICTURE

Sometimes I feel she hasn't left...especially when I wear the photo charm necklace with her picture in it. I can't tell you how many young men have stared into that picture and the reaction is always the same: a slow beam rises across their faces and...

Swish: Maria in the Mourning

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all...

The Picture Of Dorian Gray; A Moral Entertainment

Certain things are extremely difficult to understand, such as the concept of unconditional love, perhaps it is due to mislead thoughts about God’s love for us. Assuming that we can say or do certain things and suddenly lose this love and approval. ...

Write like no one is reading

Having Simultanagnosia (object blindness), Prosopagnosia (face blindness) and Semantic Agnosia (meaning blindness) goes in my favour with regards to abstract art living in world full of fragmented pieces when I draw it is in real time no visual memor...

Paul Isaacs

The reason 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual theoretical physics was done since the time of was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the ...

Freeman Dyson

We are all inclined to accept conventional forms or colours as the only correct ones. Children sometimes think that stars must be star-shaped, though naturally they are not. The people who insist that in a picture the sky must be blue, and the grass ...

Love

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

Big Picture

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

Clive Barker

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.

Algernon H. Blackwood

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken, let alone see it plastered all over the place.

Laura Linney

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

William Albert Allard

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

Alfred Sisley

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

William Wordsworth

Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.

Lady Randolph Churchill

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Norman Reedus

Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.

Sydney Greenstreet

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

Sammy Hagar