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Quotes About Image

The most unreal thing about the bar was Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space' blasting from the speakers. 'Dwarves like human music?' I asked Blitzen. 'You mean humans like our music.' 'But …' I had a sudden image of Taylor Swift's mom and Freya having a girls' night out in Nidavellir. 'Never mind.
~ Rick Riordan
You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out. Y-yeah, Percy managed. You guys aren't photogenic.
~ Rick Riordan
Even if she were going crazy, she didn't want to look like she was going crazy.
~ Rick Riordan
From here he could see the farmer's daughter in the yard, feeding the geese. Wasn't there a nursery rhyme in there somewhere? No, he was thinking of the farmer's wife, wasn't he?--cutting off tails with a carving knife. A horrid image. Poor mice, he had thought when he was a boy. Still thought the same now that he was a man. Nursery rhymes were brutal affairs.
~ Kate Atkinson
Through the power of the Spirit humans are to be joined to the second person of the trinity in Christ, and on virtue of that attachment human lives are to be given a shape that images the first person of the trinity in something like the way the second person of the trinity images it.
~ Kathryn Tanner
Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the working against time...
~ Katie Roiphe
It was a tribute to my ability to present an image so at variance with what I felt that few noticed I was in any way different.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
The horror of that image has never diminished, but it has long ceased to be a morbid matter; as with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
however accurately one may fill in the surface details of one's mirror reflection, the personality represented rarely comes near the truth as others would see it.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Kaikki neljä pysyivät jonkin aikaa liikkumatta, kun myrsky yltyi, ja salaman leimahdus valaisi heidän suojansa. Pitkän miehen ja vanhan naisen merkillisen jähmeä asento tuntui loitsivan Axlin ja Beatricen, ja molemmat olivat vaiti aloillaan. Oli melkein kuin he olisivat itse törmänneet kuvaan, astuneet sen sisään ja muuttuneet itsekin maalatuiksi hahmoiksi.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
It looked like I was the dead itself, and that isn't something someone should aspire to look like.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Rafe's right. You are pretty. I like your hair." She reached out and stroked a lock hanging over my shoulder. "I wish mine was straight. I used to straighten it, but it never really worked. I don't think I was doing it right. Rafe tried to help, but--" She giggled. "He's not a good hairdresser." I couldn't help smiling at that image.
~ Kelley Armstrong
You know politicians', Rosa said. 'They're sensitive as schoolgirls, and more vengeful.
~ Ken Follett
And becomes aware of her image once more, vaguely reflected in the dirty attic window: what does it mean, all this concern about our images? It means this is the only way we ever see ourselves; looking out, at others, reflected through cobwebs from an attic window
~ Ken Kesey
I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.
~ Miles Aldridge
I hope we all feel more comfortable acknowledging the power of image in our perceived successes and our perceived failures.
~ Cameron Russell
Appearance is a type of power.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.
~ Voltaire
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
~ John Lennox
& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect
~ Drake