Prisms Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  People, Judging, Stereotype

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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 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'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism. I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Journey, Thinking

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Writing, Different, Essays

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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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• The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

  Frank Luntz

  Fundamentals, Problem, Republican

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• Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time, Ideas, Illusion

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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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• I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

  Emily Dickinson

  Dark, Years, Light

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.

  Megyn Kelly

  Running, Race, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Believe, Struggle, Class

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• If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Mean, Sight

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• She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Color, Rainbow, Saws

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• You could perhaps better tell the story of a place by writing of a tiny village as a sort of prism into the bigger issues the culture was facing. It struck me as a better way to learn about a place, or at least a different way, than just going to interview the president. So I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there. But I'm just amazed.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Writing, Issues, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Party, Farewell, People

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• And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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