Picture Quotes

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

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.

I want to thank everybody and anybody who ever had anything to do with the making of this picture.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?

When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

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

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.

There is no unique picture of reality.

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

A picture is a poem without words.

I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don't get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

I don't think, 'Gee, I'd like to dress this person.' There was a picture in Us magazine. It was a jersey dress, and Courtney Love was wearing it. I have this thing about Courtney Love, this funny worship.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

I did a picture for the First Barbie doll box.

My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

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.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.

Excuse me for harrowing you with this picture of war. But I am very full of it at present.

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

'The Sound of Music' did more damage to the industry than any other picture. Everyone tried to copy it. We were the biggest offenders.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

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