Pictures That Represent Sayings

#1. We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.

James Fenimore Cooper

#2. Nations need to constantly reaffirm their historical roots to maintain their political ideals. Motion pictures were one of the media used by nations to accommplish this task. The question one must ask is: Did the colonial films made faithfully represent the period in our nation's history?

John P. Harty Jr.

#3. You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Mark Twain

#5. It's good to always do some sort of exercise.

Ashley Scott

#6. The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

Elia Kazan

#7. The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

Robert Henri

#8. I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

Jo Brand

#9. For every minute you are wasting, you are losing 60 seconds of your life.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Every day you can ask yourself, Have I helped my children understand their gifts and talents? Did I empathize with their feelings enough? Is there something I can do or say now to help strengthen our connection?

Goldie Hawn

#11. The earliest impressions are pictographic in form - little pictures that are the stylized versions of the things they represent. And most things they represent are plants and animals. The earliest writing deprived from vision rather than sound.

Chris Gosden

#12. The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.

John Branch

#13. I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.

Chris Martin

#14. Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

Bruce Riedel

#15. I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning how to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York.

Meg Rosoff

#16. She was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have loved her.

Denis Johnson

#17. I don't read books, but I have friends who do.

George W. Bush

#18. I've never even done a residency.

Christopher Bollen

#19. You always have to lie. I've been in plays that people don't enjoy and I pray that they lie to my face when I come outside.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#20. I say, then, that hereditary States, accustomed to the family of their Prince, are maintained with far less difficulty than new States, since all that is required is that the Prince shall not depart from the usages of his ancestors, trusting for the rest to deal with events as they arise.

Niccolo Machiavelli