Picture Quotes

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

The picture is all he feels about it, all he thinks worth preserving of it, all he invests it with. If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

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.

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

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.

I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble.

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.