Picture Quotes

• I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

  

  Andrew Clements
  • Words
  • Reading
  • Mom

• It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside... who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

  

  America Ferrera
  • World
  • She
  • Pretty

• More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • People
  • Picture

• I know dock leaves pretty well, but I should not attempt to introduce them into a picture without having them before me.

  

  John Constable
  • Pretty
  • Picture

• If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Picture
  • Ifs

• Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to hang on to their patrimony as agribusiness moves in. But these stereotypes are misleading.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • May
  • Picture

• The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.

  

  Peter Medawar
  • Up
  • World
  • Nature

• People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

  

  Laurette Taylor
  • Picture
  • Emotional

• I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

  

  Colin Angle
  • Work
  • She
  • Book

• When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Interesting

• We thus find ourselves in the situation that the entire theory of man-made global warming-with its repercussions in science, and its important consequences for politics and the global economy-is based on ice core studies that provided a false picture of the atmospheric CO2 levels.

  

  Zbigniew Jaworowski
  • Men
  • Important
  • Science

• My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from The Wizard of Oz. But I can tell you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!

  

  Jack Nance
  • Dog
  • Barks
  • Wizard Of Oz

• Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that commitment and technical skill can be achieved by means of one's own will and study , while fantasy and passion are more valuable because they are innate and inescapably peculiar assets.

  

  Augusto De Luca
  • Study
  • Will
  • Skill

• I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Party

• Back in '96, I was on 'The Price Is Right' pointing at refrigerators, and 'Extra,' the TV show, came down. They were the first entertainment entity that put people up on the Internet, so they put my picture up, and America Online called the next day and said I got a zillion or whatever downloads. I didn't know what a download was!

  

  Cindy Margolis
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

  

  Liz Vassey
  • Wonder
  • Picture
  • Nasty

• I try to picture my books being acted out.

  

  Denise Fleming
  • Picture

• I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

  

  Harry Cohn
  • Picture
  • Device

• The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

  

  Johnny Weissmuller
  • Good
  • Business
  • Picture

• I think the main thing is that I very rarely recognise the actual interview in print. To me, it's like being painted by an artist. And then you see the picture, and they've painted someone else.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Picture

• Take My Picture, Hollywood! I Wanna Be a Star!

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Star
  • Picture

• 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 would never apologize for photographing rocks. Rocks can be very beautiful. But, yes, people have asked why I don’t put people into my pictures of the natural scene. I respond, 'There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.' That usually doesn’t go over at all.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • People
  • Why
  • Beautiful

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