Prisms Quotes

• Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Glasses, Life Is Like, Turns

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• Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

  Charles Dickens

  Papa, Literature, Potatoes

  Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)

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• The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

  e. e. cummings

  Art, Light, White

  "Tulips and Chimneys".

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• Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Mind

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• Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

  Jennifer Stone

  Reality, Light, Perception

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• The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.

  Charles R. Brown

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Color

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• When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Space, Glasses

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.16, Vintage

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• For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Black And White, Path, Sphinx

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• The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Past, Self, Filters

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• The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.

  Robert Barron

  Unique, Simple, White

  Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, Image

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• There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

  Amish Tripathi

  Reality, Opposites, Perception

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• Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Simple, Reality

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• I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

  Tim Hansel

  Pain, Believe, Joy

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• I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

  Arvo Part

  Light, White, Spirit

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• Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Kindness, Long, Storm

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• Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Light, White

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• Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

  Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

  Beauty, Eye, May

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• She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sad, Lost Love, Grief

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you are liberated then you can be in the crowd and there is no crowd. You can be surrounded by the world and their is no world. You have shattered the prism of illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, World, Crowds

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• I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Known

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

  Denis Johnson

  Rainbow, English Words, Empty

  Denis Johnson (2003). “Already Dead: A California Gothic”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

  Louis Fischer

  Definitions, Biographies, Persons

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• I am the ism, my hate's a prism.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Isms

  Song: Irresponsible Hate Anthem, Album: Antichrist Superstar, 1996

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• Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Light, Color

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.74, Ignatius Press

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• The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows no other human voices, no other footprints. On the Offshore Lights you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, not the prisms, not the wind.

  M. L. Stedman

  Islands, Light, Wind

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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