A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.”
“A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.”
“A piazza for everything and everything in its piazza.”
“A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.”
“A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.”
“A pickup truck is a fragile ego overcompensated”
Source: Sentiment and Sediment: 21 Poems
“A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable sate of mind.”
Source: Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus
“A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.”
“A picture book is a motorcycle: small, loud, fun, and zippy.
An easy reader is a chartered bus: obliged to carry a rather dull passenger roster of sanctioned curriculum, plus the baggage of an approved, limited vocabulary. The trick is to design your chartered bus to be as cool and sexy as a motorcycle.”
“A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.”
“A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.”
“A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.”
“A picture can be funny and also weep inducing. One cries for many reasons. The state of weeping, for me, is induced by recognition of a rarified level of integration - thinking about what must it have taken to reach that integration.”
“A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.”
“A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.”
“A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it’s story.”
“A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.”
“A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.”
“A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.”
Source: Philosophical Investigations
“A picture is a model of reality.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“A picture is a moment in time. It is not a reflection of one's day or life.”
“A picture is a picture, it doesn't matter what camera you use!”
“A picture is a poem without words”
“A picture is a reflection of the dreams, vision, missions and goals hidden within. Look beyond what you see.”
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
“A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.”
Source: The shop-talk of Edgar Degas
“A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.”
Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.”
“A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.”
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.”
“A picture is just a picture, but add music and there's emotion. There's a story.”
Source: Still Life with Strings
“A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.”
“A picture is never anything but its own plural description.”
“A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.”
“A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.”
“A picture is poem without words.”
“A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.”
“A picture is the expression of an impression”
“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?”
“A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.”
“A picture is worth 1,000 megapixels. High-definition (HD) TV images are used to camouflage some writers' low-definition (LD) vocabulary.”
Source: We Need to Have a Word: Words of Wisdom, Courage and Patience for Work, Home and Everywhere
“A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.”
“A picture is worth a thousand texts.”
Source: Girl Stays in the Picture
“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
“A picture is worth a thousand words.
A book is worth a "..." heartbeats, a "..." feelings, a "..." thoughts ...”
Source: Τα μενταγιόν
“A picture is worth a thousand words.......and a video is worth a million pictures.....”
“A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Even if I were to abstractly paint the phrase "I love you," it would be the visual equivalent of Joyce's Ulysses.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz”
Source: liQUID PROse QUOtes
“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”
“A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.”