Prisms Quotes

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

  Louis Fischer

  Definitions, Biographies, Persons

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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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• To know the piano is to know the universe. To master the piano is to master the universe. The spectrum of piano sound acts as a prism through which all musical and non-musical sounds may be filtered. The grunts of sheep, the braying of mules, the popping of champagne corks, the sighs of unrequited love, not to mention the full lexicon of sounds available to all other instruments-including whistles, scrapes, bleatings, caresses, thuds, hoots, plus sweet and sour pluckings-fall within the sovereignty of this most bare and dissembling chameleon.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Fall, Unrequited Love

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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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• 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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• 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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• ... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you're the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?

  Wallace Stegner

  Life, Wall, Exercise

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.101, Penguin

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• Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

  William Wordsworth

  Sea, Forever, Mind

  The Prelude bk. 3, l. 60 (1850)

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• You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Party, People, Challenges

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• When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

  Ellen Goodman

  Needs, Looks, Want

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Play, Cry

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• I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

  Harry Hamlin

  Thinking, Law, People

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