Insert Quotes

• The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

  Louise Bogan

  Flower, Order, Class

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

  Marguerite Young

  Philosophy, Poetic, Realism

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• Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Shooting, Maximizing, Wheels

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• Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Excess, Half, Ransom

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• I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

  William Jackson

  Children, Successful, Animal

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• Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

  Wally Wood

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nails, Mindfulness, Scratches

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.625, Bantam Classics

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• Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

  Pete Cashmore

  Successful, Connections, Looks

  "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun" by Pete Cashmore, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

  Ben Folds

  Silence, Notes, Silence Is

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• I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.

  Jonathan Meades

  Art, Thinking, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things around, play with lighting, things like that. He'll even spend hours on the set-up for an insert shot. He's an interested person who gets involved in all the aspects of the films he is making.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Play, Likes, Cameras

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• Obama also allowed Hillary supporters to insert an absurd statement into the platform suggesting that media sexism spurred her loss and that “demeaning portrayals of women ... dampen the dreams of our daughters.” ... It would have been better to put this language in the platform: “A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.”

  Maureen Dowd

  Dream, Daughter, Loss

  "Yes, She Can" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2008.

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• There's a test they can do to determine a baby's gender ahead of time; I think they insert a tiny photo of Leonardo DiCaprio into the uterus, and if the baby punches it, it's a boy.

  Dave Barry

  Baby, Thinking, Boys

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• The most killer questions in sales: "Mr. Jones, when I say (insert your product, your company, or anything you want an opinion about here) what one word comes to mind?" This is the most powerful question because it not only gives you top of mind awareness (the customer "hot button"), it also tells you their attitude towards it.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Powerful, Attitude, Giving

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• Borna virus is not a retrovirus. It doesn't actually insert its own genes into our cells. What it does is just hangs out near our DNA and uses some of the molecular machinery to copy itself.

  Carl Zimmer

  Dna, Cells, Viruses

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

  Jo Brand

  Reading, Political, Use

  "'Cold' nurses are an easy target - blame rotten NHS management" by Jo Brand, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Book, Understanding

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• Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.

  Norman Lock

  Giving, Purpose, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

  Gary Cole

  Doors, Shopping, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.

  Werner Herzog

  Editors, Choices, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs... I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their educated way of looking at images, and reading them for their emotional, psychological, and/or sociological values. So I would start to interject these things that the photograph would not speak of and that I felt needed to be revealed, but that couldn't be revealed from just looking at an image.

  Lorna Simpson

  Reading, Emotional, Giving

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• There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

  Sophie Blackall

  Artist, Thinking, Arrogance

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

  Chuck Berry

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Thinking, Insults You

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.14

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• It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, Names, Worst Case Scenario

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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