Quotes of Representation - somelinesforyou

“ Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Too caustic? To hell with cost; we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! ”

- Jean Sibelius

“ Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation. ”

- Saul Landau

“ A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space. ”

- Unknown

“ Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ”

- Robert Benchley

“ I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realized that I would have to try something else. ”

- James Stewart

“ We've got to go back to the drawing board and get some home cooking. ”

- Vince Carter

“ Using archaeological and anatomical science rather than artistic interpretation makes this the most accurate likeness ever created. ”

- Jean Claude

“ Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. ”

- Jennie Jerome Churchill

“ It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to: the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. ”

- Claude M. Bristol

“ Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. ”

- Robert Collier

“ We can only know one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. ”

- Simone Weil

“ You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. ”

- Lord Buckley

“ Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur: There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority; A dog's obeyed in office. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Taxation without representation is tyranny. ”

- James Otis

“ For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memories good and bad will bring tears, and words can never replace feelings. ”

- Unknown

“ If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them. Our comedies are not to be laughed at. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ We are all captives of the picture in our head — our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. ”

- Scott Hamilton

“ It takes a long time to educate a community and it can't be done by spellbinders, moneybags, hypnotizers or magicians or Aladdin's lamp. Character is what matters on a paper. ”

- Harry J. Grant

“ Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium. ”

- Brian Eno

“ A drawing is simply a line going for a walk. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. ”

- William Randolph Hearst

“ I'm never certain how to respond when an advocate on the other side of a case calls up images of patriots over the centuries who have sacrificed themselves to preserve our democracy. ”

- Charles Ruff

“ Vision — It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. ”

- Robert Collier
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