Misrepresentations Quotes

#1. Photography knows how to authenticate its misrepresentations.

Mason Cooley

#2. By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.

Dalai Lama

#3. Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.

Grace Jones

#5. The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#6. A few were journalists and one a novelist, who wanted to get it right. (Rhyme welcomed his presence; he himself was the subject of a series of novels based on cases he'd run and had written the author on several occasions about misrepresentations of real crime scene work. "Must you sensationalize?")

Jeffery Deaver

#7. Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view.

Lucy R. Lippard

#8. Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.

Buck Rodgers

#9. You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

John Brunner

#10. Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

Eric Hoffer

#11. You ought to take more chances," I said.
"I took too many earlier," she said. "I'm sorry.

Larry McMurtry

#12. I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Alicia Keys

#13. I always say that it's not really been a good day if you haven't caused a major diplomatic incident by lunchtime,' Otto said with a grin.

Mark Walden

#14. Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.

Jojo Moyes

#15. I'm a chalkboard that's been erased over and over again until there's nothing left but a haze of white dust. Before this I never understood how long an hour could take, how many ticks of the second hand are in a minute, how endless the space between seconds can be.

Sarah McCarry