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Quotes About Picture

children listen to superstitious tales, the story goes, that that spot, in the heart of the "Big Cane," is a haunted place. For more than a quarter of a century, human voices had rarely, if ever, disturbed the silence of the clearing. Rank and noxious weeds had overspread the once cultivated field—serpents sunned themselves on the doorway of the crumbling cabin. It was indeed a dreary picture
~ Solomon Northup
In times of exceptional stress, nature will often give people's behavior so tragical a complexion that neither a picture nor a verbal description is competent to represent its titanic energy.
~ Stefan Zweig
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
~ Maureen O'Hara
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
~ William S. Burroughs
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
~ Deborah Harkness
The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.
~ Johann Hari
O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.
~ Walsham How
Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every picture there could be an ugly story.
~ Michael Connelly
Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
~ Michael Connelly
The technician consulted the enclosed documents. "Lizard is biting local children. They have a question about identification of the species, and a concern about diseases transmitted from the bite." She produced a child's picture of a lizard, signed TINA at the top. "One of the kids drew a picture of the lizard.
~ Michael Crichton
One of these people—a Canadian, of all things—stands at the picture's center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole.
~ Michael Lewis
I don't like asking for an autograph, but I would like to take a picture with Jessica Simpson because I love her style!
~ Ashley Tisdale
There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
~ Peter Berg
If we start to use social media data sets to take the pulse of a nation or understand a crisis - or actually use it to deploy resources - we are getting a skewed picture of what is happening.
~ Kate Crawford
DIY skills are hot. The ability to put up a shelf and hang a picture is always good and being able to cook. Cooking's really hot.
~ Daisy Lowe
I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time. I have a giant picture in my apartment in New York that is of his Chicago Tribune cover, Mr. President.
~ Adam Pally
I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.
~ Marilyn Monroe
patches, she is radiantly beautiful, the very picture of a healthy octopus and a diligent mother. She fluffs the
~ Sy Montgomery
The domesticated wilderness of pine, maple and oak rolled to a halt and stuck in the frame of the train window like a bad picture.
~ Sylvia Plath
And the knowledge Inside the hill on which you are sitting, A moated fort hill, bigger than your house, Failed to reach the picture. While your next moment, Coming towards you like an infantryman Returning slowly out of no-man's-land, Bowed under something, never reached you-- Simply melted into the perfect light.
~ Ted Hughes
On one DR trip you drive up to La Vega and put her name out there. You show a picture, too, like a private eye. It is of the two of you, the one time you went to the beach, to Sandy Hook. Both of you are smiling. Both of you blinked.
~ Junot Diaz
The universe is just one big happy tapestry of tangled relationships that can never be unraveled. There is no chair here, butterfly there; particle here, void there; time here, gravity there. There is only the picture that emerges from all pulling together, a great mosaic that seems unrecognizable close up, but comes into focus as we stand back and observe from a more distant, and broader, perspective.
~ K.C. Cole
A graceful arch of brows above great eyes; Lips bathed in darting, smiling light that flies Reflected from white teeth; a mouth as red As red karkandhu-fruit; love's brightness shed O'er all her face in bursts of liquid charm— The picture speaks, with living beauty warm.
~ K?lid?sa
Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.
~ Kak Sri