Pictures Quotes

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

The ability to get ahead in an organization is simply another talent, like the ability to play chess, paint pictures, do coronary bypass operations or pick pockets.

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.

You can't get any pictures from way back there.

I went from a guy, kind of a working actor, a supporting player, to magazine covers and being offered the studio pictures really quickly. Nobody was comfortable with it. I wasn't really comfortable with it.

Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

You don't make pictures for Oscars.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family.