“If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.” IfsFirstsChildrenSportsQualityTakenIf I CouldMore TimeQuality Time Author:Lee Trevino
“But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.” FactsLightTermQualityTakenPhotographyPhotographerPhotographExpensiveContradictionImagery Author:Damien Hirst
“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.” MeanCertainQualityTakenWallStonesOriginalsIgnoredDwellingEpidemicsGormenghast Book:Titus Groan Source: Titus Groan
“If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.” IfsPersonsQualityTakenModelsPainter Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre
“The art of thinking is the greatest art of all, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' The thinker knows he is today where his thoughts have taken him and that he is building his future by the quality of the thoughts he thinks.” ThinkingKnowsMenHeartArtMotivationalTodayQualityTakenBuildingThinkerA Man Thinketh Author:Wilferd Peterson
“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingSometimesStoriesRealitySeemsMovingTermQualityTakenGoes OnMoodDiscovering Author:Brian Evenson
“The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.” PeopleIfsWorldDoeSeemsWould BeWinningFictionQualitySuccessfulTakenCrimeHonestlySuccessful PeopleCrime Fiction Author:George Pelecanos
“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?” IfsMenYearsLittlesLawJusticeQualityTakenMankindConscienceEssenceAll TimeCodeSensationsFragments Author:Walter Van Tilburg Clark
“The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.” ThinkingWantHas BeensHelpingEnergyFunQualityLaughingTakenEffectsProjectsSellsDetailsWitGenuineVisualsScoreEvidentGrandeurPrecisionMockUnderminingSillinessPixarSublimityFussyQuality Control Author:A. O. Scott
“I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.” CareJobsFilmRoomsQualityTakenBiggerBudgetsHotelWillingnessLimitlessTrailersHotel Rooms Author:Dominic Monaghan
“The most striking feature of the new is the sheer mass. Photography was previously a mass phenomenon, but now, quantity is doubtless the outstanding quality. For a long time photos have been taken frequently and everywhere, but now photos are taken permanently and everywhere,... What is new is that we can watch them practically in real time.” LongHas BeensRealQualityWatchesTakenPhotographyMassLong TimeFeaturesPhenomenonQuantitySheerOutstanding Author:Joachim Schmid
“It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.” QualityTakenDyingQuality WorkThespians Author:Jason Statham