T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Cambodia Cycling Tour is a unique way to experience the Cambodian culture and at the same time learn about the history of Angkor temples.”
“The Cambridge flowers had a moral meaning...but they had a poetical meaning that was even more apparent. So did the sounds one heard on summer evenings, the bells of the cows ambling home at twilight, the lullaby of the crickets in early autumn, the hymns of the frogs, in spring, in some neighbouring swamp, not to speak of the creaking of the winter wood-sleds, dragging their loads of walnut over the complaining snow. Every sound and odour had its value.”
Source: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865
“The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.”
“The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?”
“The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.”
Source: Programming Perl: 3rd Edition
“The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.”
Source: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second Edition
“The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.”
Source: A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
“the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.”
Source: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
“The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.”
“The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.”
“The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars.”
“The camera basically is a license to explore.”
“The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.”
Source: On photography
“The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.”
“The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.”
“The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.”
“The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.”
“The camera can photograph thought.”
“The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.”
“The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.”
“The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.”
“The camera can show you only what is. An artist’s brush can show you what you long for.”
“The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.”
“The camera cannot leave the man, but the man can leave the camera. It's in the style of documentary where you make an agreement between a camera and a man and say, "I'm going to film you now."”
“The camera cannot, but the photographer can.”
“The camera connects me to the raw beauty of nature.”
“The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.”
“The camera course was a bit crap. But when I was in drama school, I wasn't interested. I wanted to be a stage actress. I was not interested in learning camera craft. But then you throw yourself in the deep end when you do get a job in front of the camera because you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, and it is a skill.”
“The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene.”
Source: The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
“The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!”
“The camera doesn’t have to be a barrier,” she said. “It’s a witness.”
She never shot herself conducting interviews—it broke one of the tenets of cinéma vérité.”
“The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen.”
Source: Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory
“The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.”
“The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.”
Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.”
“The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.”
“The camera gives you some control.”
“The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.”
“The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears.”
Source: The Sadness of Antonioni
“The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.”
“The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur in the observer's mind; strong enough to send him into battle perhaps, but not to have him understand why he is going.”
“The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.”
“The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.”
Source: Timebends: A Life
“The camera has replaced actual looking and turned life into evidence.”
“The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.”
Source: Endless horizons
“The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”
Source: Illuminations
“The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality”
“The camera is a kind of license.”