Best Aperture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Visual art, 1951-1993: exploring plane and contour : the drawing, painting, collage, foldage, photo-work, sculpture and film of Michael Snow from 1951 to 1967

“I've decided that what interests me most is that you can only capture the light at a certain time. But after that, five minutes after that, then it's a different thing. So if you don't have the right aperture, you've missed it. Of course, you can correct it in the lab. But not really.”

Ifs Different Light Certain Courses Interest Five Minutes Decided Different Things Capture Five Minutes Labs Aperture

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

Life Inspirational Universe Buddhism Yoga Wellness Exploring Metaphysical Zen Buddhism Aperture

Book:Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

Source: Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

“There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.”

Form Gone Moon Rain Stones Constant Steady Globes Insects Lifeless Aperture

Book:Suttree

Source: Suttree

“To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.”

World Firsts Care Beautiful Heaven Stars Path Saws Bears Shining Rounds Following Guides Get Back Beautiful Things Tunnels Where We Came Aperture

Author:Dante Alighieri

“There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.”

Self Truth Process Findings Hypothesis Correcting Aperture

Author:Carl Sagan

“In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell.”

Humans Heart Body Night Human Beings Doors Studios Myth Opening Vulnerable Cells Charm Refuge Defence Aperture

Author:Anais Nin

“In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the Sun, which had recently been discovered accidentally with radar equipment. ... [B]oth Ratcliffe and Sir Lawrence Bragg, then Cavendish Professor, gave enormous support and encouragement to me. Bragg's own work on X-ray crystallography involved techniques very similar to those we were developing for "aperture synthesis", and he always showed a delighted interest in the way our work progressed.”

“The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.”

Soul Moments Grace Meditation Eternity Present Moment Aperture

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose sombre depths turn us faint. And yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.”

Life Whole Turns Extraordinary Depth Tenderness Glimpse Abyss Somber Aperture

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.”

People Way Stills Running Used Hurt Sin Animal Driven Wounds Injury Get Away Running Away Drains Scapegoat Bystanders Aperture Olden Times Lowlifes

Book:The tugman's passage

Source: The tugman's passage

“The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.”

Body Sex Example Smell Mysterious Vivid Dominion Emissions Damp Aperture

Book:Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation

Source: Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation