Lenses Quotes - Page 4

• From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Firsts, Moments, Tenderness

  Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”

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• I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

  Rita Dove

  Sex, Race, Age

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• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Ideas, People

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• It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Art, Mirrors

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• I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

  Donna Mills

  Mind, Gears, Plans

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• Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Scientist, He Man

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1970). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”

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• I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

  Herb Ritts

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

  Kevin Spacey

  Missing You, Believe, Looks

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

  Ville Valo

  Writing, People, Romance

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• The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Views, World, Might

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• Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  Night, Light, Feelings

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• I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

  Len Wein

  Differences, Important, Plot

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• I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

  Len Wein

  Way, Feels, Cerebral

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Home, Winning, Eight

  "Can't sell your home? Here are 9 tips that will help". www.today.com. December 15, 2010.

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• I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

  Taylor Swift

  Glasses, Trying, And Love

  "Taylor Swift Reveals Meaning Of ‘Red’ Album Title" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2012.

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• In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.

  Hugh Laurie

  Party, Book, Fall

  Hugh Laurie (2011). “The Gun Seller”, p.279, Random House

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• If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

  Annie Proulx

  Light, Darkness, Ordinary

  Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Memories, Rainbow, Cameras

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The bat was looking at Theo and Theo was having trouble following his own thoughts.The bat was wearing tiny sunglasses.Ray Bans,Theo could see by the trademark in the corner of one lens."I'm sorry, Mr.,uh- Case, could you take the bat off your head.It's very distracting." Him." Pardon?" It's a him.Roberto.He no like the light.

  Christopher Moore

  Sorry, Light, Rays

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.88, Hachette UK

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• Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Eye, Cameras

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.183, Penguin

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• Humor is about perspective, and hanging out with people who see life through a similar lens is so important.

  Mariska Hargitay

  People, Perspective, Important

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