Scenery Quotes - Page 7

• I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.

  Quentin Crisp

  Beautiful, Rain, Sky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

  Lorrie Moore

  Art, Love Is, Painting

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Self-Help”, p.51, Vintage

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• It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.

  Christopher Columbus

  Fear, Believe, Heart

  "Letter to the Sovereigns" by Christopher Columbus, 1493.

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• there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  California, People, Climate

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• The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

  Yang Liwei

  Beautiful, Wall, Space

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• Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you.

  Nancy Reagan

  Jobs, Vacation, President

  "The Most Ridiculous Myths About Barack Obama" by Paul Brandus, www.businessinsider.com. November 05, 2012.

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• Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

  Vincent Canby

  Beautiful, Deals, Hunts

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• If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Beauty, Exercise, Giving

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1993). “Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865”, Yosemite Assn

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• Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by holding for laughter and by letting them know early on what they're in for. In the first few moments, the audience is gathering information, looking at the scenery and costumes. Create a comic moment as soon as you can.

  James Carver

  Laughter, Giving, Laughing

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• A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

  Patrick Modiano

  Men, Climbing

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• The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

  James Jeans

  Gratitude, Detours, Lovable

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• When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

  Pablo Casals

  Voice, Creating, Play

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• Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

  Vera Farmiga

  Weed, New York, Moving

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• The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Midst, Seers

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• When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Running, Bodybuilding

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• It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe.

  Bosley Crowther

  Rivers, Missing, Way

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• A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!

  George Barrell Cheever

  Atheist, Liars, Writing

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• I'm doing a lot more cardio now. I want to be able to run and run and run and not get tired, you know, be able to play at a high level for all four quarters. I like to bike a lot and do some 300s here and there. Really, I love to bike though. I like being outside and moving around, seeing the good scenery around Miami and such.

  Brandon Spikes

  Running, Moving, Tired

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  Rachel McAdams

  World, Theory, Mindless

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

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• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Medicine, Sick

  Epistulae ad Lucilium CIV

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• The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Seers

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.204, Penguin

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• A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Differences, Shadow, Attractive

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.2038, Delphi Classics

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• After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.

  Max Blumenthal

  Reality, Violence, Radicalism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

  Frank Bruni

  Integrity, Commitment, Passionate

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• The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Mood, Temper

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.722, Wordsworth Editions

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