252 quotes found
“LED lighting has its place: cold, detached, hollow places like office buildings, factories, fast food chains and public schools - places full of humans but no human emotions. LED lighting really be...”
“We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and ...”
“Alford, Massachusetts: Mandy stood there with her old Nikon film camera, snapping photo after photo of the rural landscape. It was difficult to describe the wonderful feeling of there not being a s...”
“Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity an...”
“We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not we might have to eat the dog poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big exciteme...”
“I guess if theres one thing I can say about the 21st century, its that the 21st century is all flash and no substance everything is digital, nothing but files of invisible electronic data on comput...”
“Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind ...”
“Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.”
“photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself”
“Kipster is a perfectly valid word, Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. Okay, so what does it mean? Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled t...”
“Why did you revive me? Alecto repeated. Well uh, well. Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. They say there are five stages of grief, you know five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, de...”
“Tell yourselves whatever youd like, but Im afraid it doesnt make it true, Mearth sighed, beginning to look impatient. Step aside Mandy, I have to remediate him, otherwise youll find yourself in a w...”
“What are you doing? Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him towards the greenhouse, the shattered glass reflecting rainbows as brilliant as a million Kodak flash...”
“Mandy smiled cheerfully at an overweight kid in a gold sweater and pink skirt who was chasing her little brother around along the boardwalk. When she was that age, on sunny days shed be out on the ...”
“Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, bu...”
“Look, Im real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot, Mandy apologized gloomily. Its wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution.Its alright, I think she wants to be remediated, Al...”
“Do you think theres somewhere else, some other place to go after this one? Mandy blurted out.You mean when you die, where will you end up? Alecto asked her. I wouldnt know back to whatever void the...”
“Ive seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly they cant kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but Ive seen humans die from smo...”
“Growing up in the digital age, I'm expected to embrace all forms of modern technology with blissful ignorance. Books were always one of few escapes from this, because reading a book means not havin...”
“Why is it these days that so many people hate reading? Some people won't even touch a newspaper or magazine. It isn't television that kills reading, or cinema or radio, or even those accursed littl...”
