Picture Quotes

• As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

  

  Lee Marvin
  • People
  • Movie
  • Girl

• Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Book
  • Picture

• I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Picture
  • Baby

• I start a picture and I finish it.

  

  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  • Picture

• Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and wide open spaces, I work with my blinds firmly drawn, daylight filtered through their white canvas, a painterly northern light falling through two big skylights above my table, and nothing visible outside to distract me.

  

  Debi Gliori
  • Work
  • Light
  • Perfect

• So what are we saying?Our Eden's a failure.A made-up story to fit the picture-perfect world.The one with 'I do's and 'I love you.'And 'we are made for each other.'Is forever over now?

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• I treat paintings as I treat objects. If a window in a picture looks wrong, I close it and draw the curtains, just as I would do in my own room.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture

• When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

  

  Jean Pigozzi
  • May
  • Picture

• Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

  

  Claire Scovell LaZebnik
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• ...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Time
  • Men
  • Hope

• The emerging picture from... studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of master associated with being a world-class expert-in anything.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • World
  • Practice
  • Picture

• I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Career
  • Picture
  • Baseball

• You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

  

  Jimmy Breslin
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Picture

• In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Great
  • Red
  • Moon

• I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Art
  • Picture

• Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Good
  • Justice

• In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • Live
  • Art
  • Science

• Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Career
  • Decision
  • Picture

• The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  

  Neil Jordan
  • People
  • Picture
  • Organization

• I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • Running
  • Dark
  • Scary

• Abbey Clancy is incredible. I saw a picture of her in a white suit recently, and she looked amazing. Victoria Beckham always looks classy, and I like Coleen Rooney's style too.

  

  Amy Childs
  • She
  • Amazing
  • Style

• The picture of change in human society that emerges from this recent research throws new light on that aspect of the Transition that has been called the ‘Upper Palaeolithic Revolution’ and the ‘Creative Explosion’ – that time when recognizably modern skeletons, behaviour and art seem to have appeared in western Europe as a ‘package deal’.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Society
  • Change
  • Human

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