Burton Silverman Quotes

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

Burton Silverman

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• You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Find

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• America faces a new race that has awakened.

  

  E. Franklin Frazier
  • America
  • New
  • Race

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• 'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Way
  • Moment

• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

  

  Wale
  • Artist
  • Emotional
  • Painting

• If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

  

  Dan Malloy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Never
  • Being
  • Lose

• When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Work
  • Star
  • Working

• Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Want
  • Career

• I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• The problem with feature filmmaking is that it offers you this mirage of being able to achieve perfection, as the theory of it is that you have control of every part of the film, though in reality, it is as inexact as the next thing in your life.

  

  Kapil Sharma
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Control

• Dubbed as a Knight of the Order of Saint Sebastian, I espoused the cause of pure colour, which has been invaded by guile, occupied and oppressed in cowardly fashion by line and its manifestation; drawing in Art. I aimed to defend and deliver it, and lead it to triumph and final glory.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Drawing

• We have to build the spiritual world out of symbols taken from our own personality, as we build the scientific world out of the symbols of the mathematician.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World
  • Taken
  • Spiritual

• Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Work
  • Family
  • Help

• I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people I portray may be grim, back-breaking, depraved, the people themselves are always remarkable characters and souls

  

  G.M.B. Akash
  • People
  • May
  • Character

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

  

  Burton Silverman
  • Character
  • Environment
  • Vision