Quotes About Avatars

#1. Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.

Timothy Noah

#2. There's no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn't be - bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.

Alan Palomo

#3. Ultimately, we're not the avatars we create. We're not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.

Jim Carrey

#4. The fear of failure is not just the greatest fear of man, it is the fear of man. All other fears are avatars of the fear of failure.

Anup Kochhar

#5. Seeing other people is incredibly engaging, and that's one of the drivers that made us partner with Facebook - social communication. Not social newsfeeds, but actual face-to-face, seeing multiple avatars in a play experience, that's going to be a very big part of the future in VR.

Brendan Iribe

#6. Who are you really, behind the avatars you've created for yourself? What are you covering up? What are you afraid of? What are you hoping for? Where are you going?

Jonathan Martin

#7. I'm used to everything digital - the pictures, the avatars of the person, the profiles - so when I get to see someone in the flesh, it's really nice.

Michelle Phan

#8. Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Jane McGonigal

#9. So it's not an architectural masterpiece. When Da5id and Hiro and the other hackers wrote The Black Sun, they didn't have enough money to hire architects or designers, so they just went in for simple geometric shapes. The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.

Neal Stephenson

#10. We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.

Joe Dilley

#11. Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong emotions. It's hard not to when you have a million different people's personalities playing out in your head.

Sai Marie Johnson

#12. Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

Waverley Root

#13. The Internet is not a virtual world inhabited by avatars. It is a means of communication that offers people in the physical world a method to organize, act, and promote ideas and awareness.

Wael Ghonim

#14. I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.

Andy Serkis

#15. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

Jean Lorrain

#16. Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

William Faulkner

#17. We must step out of our digital avatars, and come together and have face-to-face dialogue as often as possible.

Bryant McGill

#18. Even avatars have to desire to be in God in every moment. And when avatars die, they desire with all their being to be united with God. ... .. Look at Ramakrishna.
How much he wept and prayed for the Divine Mother.

Mother Meera

#19. We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica.

Jeff Kinney

#20. Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience ... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing ... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity

Mae Jemison

#21. I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.

Sarah Monette

#22. No giant two-headed hermaphrodite demon unicorn avatars were allowed. Not on school ground, anyway.

Ernest Cline

#23. The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

Salman Rushdie

#24. We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia.

Philip K. Dick

#25. We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

Dan Simmons

#26. As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

James Surowiecki

#27. One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.

Richard Corliss

#28. Congratulations, you have been chosen to act as Death, it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Christopher Moore

#29. If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Arnold Schoenberg

#30. Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

Peter Weiss

#31. TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

David Foster Wallace

#32. Love can be many things. Cruel. Exhilarating. Deceitful. Jealous. Hateful. But at its purest form, love can be redeeming - forgiving.

Mia Asher

#33. Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things ... Life is one crisis after another.

Richard M. Nixon

#34. I may never fly - in the bird sort of way. But I do have wings.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#35. I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.

Paul W. S. Anderson

#36. Finally, you come to your senses.
Gerard to Isabel - The Stranger I Married

Sylvia Day

#37. If you are lucky, home is not only a place that you leave, but also a place where you someday arrive.

Kate Bolick

#38. I was so nervous before going out there

Natasha Kaplinsky