Picture Quotes

• These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Picture

• 'Goodfellas' has kind of got it all. That was probably one of my favorite films as a kid, so I carried a picture of 'Goodfellas' in my wallet.

  

  Mel Rodriguez
  • Picture

• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • World
  • Picture
  • Successful

• I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Book
  • True
  • Day

• History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • History
  • Picture

• We live in a world of empty spectacle, the world of spectacle rock, songs you can't remember, it's all about the expression of money, power and kind of empty and fascistic. Where technology has changed society, where people are not using their brains as much, not seeing the bigger picture but constantly looking down at the cellphone and not seeing the bigger picture. Today's songwriter need to be on outside, find their own trip if you will and find a way to connect from a place that no one has heard before. It might be taken as weird but that is what makes it unique.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Picture

• I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!'

  

  Dave Haywood Lady Antebellum
  • Friends
  • Party
  • Beer

• I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Trust

• For me, an aerial picture is no different than a close-up portrait. It's a question of framing and angle. Helicopters are great for that. But I've also used planes. Of course, I always have a harness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• I think of each movie as a puzzle. The fun is in solving the puzzle: finding a musical identity for the picture, however that can be summed up.

  

  Marco Beltrami
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Picture
  • Production
  • Promotion

• I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

  

  Jessi Klein
  • Picture

• I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Picture
  • Dying

• When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Intelligence

• We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.

  

  Arthur Hiller
  • Small
  • Picture

• In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!

  

  Bruce Coville
  • People
  • Age
  • Picture

• I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thinking

• My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

  

  Mark Haddon
  • School
  • Picture

• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Color

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Museum
  • Robot

• We get divided generationally and in other ways - libertarians versus more traditional social conservatives, for example - and we've got to provide some flexibility there. But we don't need to have quite so many litmus tests. We need to have our big picture focused on economic issues.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Picture

• I remember wearing the big oversized baseball and basketball jerseys and Timbaland boots. I was a tomboy growing up. I recently caught a picture of myself, and I was like, 'God! What was I thinking about?'

  

  Drew Sidora Jordan
  • Up
  • God
  • Thinking

• If we start to use social media data sets to take the pulse of a nation or understand a crisis - or actually use it to deploy resources - we are getting a skewed picture of what is happening.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Picture

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