Ellen Meloy Quotes
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.
Ellen Meloy
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
Octavia Spencer
I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.
Irwin Thomas
I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.
Aaron Sorkin
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
Wale
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Ramakrishna
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.
Maggie Hassan
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius
I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.
Halle Berry
I am truly honoured to become ambassadress for Yves Saint Laurent. The brand's modern vision of beauty is very inspiring, and I am particularly proud to represent such an audacious archetype of woman.
Edie Campbell
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
Ed Rendell
The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.
David Ben-Gurion
Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.
Emily Dickinson
Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel has not said anything, and in fact, cannot say anything. But I would even broaden it out to, you know, judges who are victims of attack ads in say state Supreme Court elections can't talk back. Judges are really barred from commenting on this kind of huge public hue and cry.
Dahlia Lithwick
It's sad when people break up.
Pete Townshend
The Who
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.
Ellen Meloy
