I Quotes
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“Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.”
“Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.”
Source: Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998
“Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.”
“Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Images have enormous power, and images freed from deep within ourselves can change us profoundly.”
Source: Wellness Wisdom
“Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality. Buildings were judged more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.”
Source: The Nature of Order: The process of creating life
“Images of both distance and closeness, smallness and vastness, exist in 'North on the Illahee Ferry.' Every life is sustained by both.”
Source: Earth to Poetry: A 30-Days, 30-Poems Earth, Self, and Other Care Challenge
“Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun?
Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken.
Like the light.
Like me.
I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn’t have one.
I am surrounded by walls.
I have just replaced one box for another.”
Source: Across the Universe
“Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes
They call me on and on across the universe
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe”
“Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and starving children out of Afghanistan as they flee the might of the US military is tearing at international public confidence in our war against terrorism.”
“Images of food rushed through her head, surprising her. Fried chicken. Sweet jalapeño mustard. Mashed potatoes. Biscuits. And a pie. Big and sweet, strawberries with whipped cream- so Texan, so opposite this fierce New Yorker.”
Source: The Glass Kitchen
“Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.”
“Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!”
“Images of suffering are humanizing to all but the hardened fanatic. Watch men die, struggling for dignity, and you cannot deny their humanity. If this is the politics of victimization, then all our impulses of empathy with strangers are the politics of victimization. We learn to care about those who are not like us not when we learn they want the same things we do, but when we learn that they feel pain in the same way we do.”
Source: At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
“Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.”
“Images of time as an endless flow that underlines the insignificance of the human and its paltry concerns turn out to be antihumanist veneers upon a subjectivist account of time which, far from breaking from the dogmas of humanism, reinforces a deeply conservative form of humanism. This is a humanism afllicted by a deep-seated transcendental blind spot that not only uncritically posits the local and contingent characteristics of egocentric human experience as the characteristics of reality, but it also deems this very anthropomorphic reality - whether under the rubric of preindividual singularities or ceaseless becoming - to be the horizon for overcoming human exceptionalism. Such metaphysical accounts of time champion an infinite which is more pure alterity than the suspension of the finite. As such, they must both leave the finite intact in order to maintain their alterity and debase the finite as that which does not matter in so far it is perishable. The so-called finite of such images of time is thought, mind, or the human. But the human as finite will be haunted by human pettiness and its associated limitations. It will be doomed to bear the marks of exactly that which it seeks to seek clear of.”
Source: Intelligence and Spirit
“Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?”
Source: Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory
“Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.”
“Images such as these familiar ones (I mean to suggest) build up an imaginary country in which the story becomes credible; we recognize it as the particular country of our imagination where people would act as they do in the story, would do the deed they do. And the largeness of the images makes it a country wide enough so that the victim could escape, if he chose; like Achilles. But it is the rhythmic power of the dancing, of the dance scenes, that turns the pantomime quality of a gesture into an emblem, into an image with all its own country all around it.”
Source: Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets
“Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.”
“Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow them down to anything other or less complex. A writer is a curator of sorts - once you've brought the images together you try to stand at a respectful distance and let them speak for themselves. Try not to mess with their ambiguities and contradictions. They are what they are, irreducible. This is their integrity.”
“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.”
Source: The Monkey Grammarian
“Images, not words, capture feelings in faces; nothing
can ruin the atmosphere as easily as too much light.”
“Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man.”
“Imagina si contaras los besos que has desperdiciado. Tú sabes, cuando has puesto tu mejilla en vez de tus labios, rodado en la cama después de una pelea, salido corriendo por la puerta sin tiempo para una despedida. Molestamente, cuando no están más juntos son esos los besos que siempre recuerdas. Tantos besos perdidos, ¿a dónde van? Yo los imagino como una colección de cruces en la arena; un cementerio de besos lleno de tesoros enterrados. Algunos robados, algunos perdidos o pasados por alto, algunos descuidadamente desperdiciados, todos esperando ser encontrados.”
Source: The First Last Kiss
“Imagina su sabor y no puede aguantar más su deseo, ese que se ha venido apoderando de ella con cada año que ha pasado sin sentirlo, con cada sueño que le ha tocado olvidar para seguir con la vida que ha tenido sin él".”
Source: Siempre bajo la lluvia
“Imagina todo lo que podrías lograr si tan solo te atrevieras a moverte.”
Source: Y colorín colorado, este cuento aun no se ha acabado
“Imagina una araña que se desplaza de aquí para allá por una gran telaraña. Pues en una sociedad patriarcal las mujeres tejen y son al mismo tiempo la red tejida, mientras que los varones son las arañas que se desplazan de aquí para allá sin darse cuenta de cómo y por qué lo puede hacer.”
Source: Ética para Celia
“Imaginaba que perder una perna o un brazo sería doloroso, pero perder la verdad central de la vida era... fatal.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“Imaginamos um mundo onde as duas podemos ir jantar juntas num sábado à noite, sem que ninguém pense duas vezes no assunto. Dá vontade de chorar, a simplicidade, a exiguidade. Trabalhámos tanto para termos uma vida tão grandiosa. Mas agora tudo o que queremos são as mais pequenas liberdades. A paz quotidiana de amar sem restrições.”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Imaginar que tiene en mente (Vargas Llosa) a Camus ( o ha olvidado que lo tuvo en mente) al contestar a las preguntas de El Urogallo en 1970 y, finalmente, al escribir una de sus grandes obras de crítica literaria, el libro que da forma actual y concreta a la idea del novelista como suplantado de Dios: Historia de un deicidio.”
Source: Viajes con un mapa en blanco
“Imaginary dimensions are changing so the things.”
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Imaginary evils are incurable.”
“Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.”
“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes, Historical and Critical
“Imaginary numbers are a fine and wonderful refuge of the divine spirit almost an amphibian between being and non-being.”
“Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.”
“Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.”
“Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Imaginary problems are the root of most problems.”
“Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.”
“imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.”
Source: Warbreaker
“Imaginas que yo persigo lo extraño por ignorancia de lo bello, pero no es así, ocurre que porque tu ignoras lo bello, yo busco lo extraño.”
“Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.”
“Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'”
“Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.”
“Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine”
“Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Source: Gravity and Grace