23 quotes found
“Magazine and television advertisements have me subconsciously believing that a sexy airbrushed image can sell a lot more canned tomatoes than without this image. Whos to say that a dolled up vagina...”
“images precede the real, making and shaping it into what we come to name and know as the real, producing it, fabricating it, into the worlds we come to inhabit.”
“...I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.”
“...if you project the image you wish the world to see, eventually it will become reality.”
“Too ridged an image of how things should be can completely scuttle any potential success.”
“Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.”
“Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and 'bounders' that a man of fashion is afraid of...”
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
“You're the mirror, I am your image...”
“You're in the mirror, I am your image...”
“The difference between you and me,is the different reflection that we both see.”
“Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.”
“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”
“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”
“In every parting there is an image of death.”
“Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.”
“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.”
“The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.”