Time Lapse Quotes

• No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Time, Book

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

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  No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

  Robert Southey

  Friendship, I Miss You, Missing You

  Robert Southey (1836). “The Doctor, &c”

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• No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dust, History, Lapses

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• The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Important, Cameras, Different

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Flower, Lapses, Looks

  "Why We Love Sarah Jessica Parker" by Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Flower, Moving, Tired

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• Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Darkness Within, Light

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• I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

  Jandy Nelson

  Photography, Badass, Flower

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.84, Penguin

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• By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and that this lapse of time can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful.

  John von Neumann

  Years, Discovery, Desire

  "The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society". John von Neumann's address to Princeton alumni (1954) as quoted in "John von Neumann: Collected Works" edited by A. H. Taub, 1963.

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• Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.

  Alia Shawkat

  Monday, Night, Eight

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Video, Lapses, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

  Glen Duncan

  Flower, Silence, Dying

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• [Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

  Michael Phelps

  Weed, Smoking, Drug

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• Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Photography, Animal, Making Love

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