Quotes About Being Framed

#1. Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#2. I'm very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up the fish and chucked away.

Antony Armstrong-Jones

#3. And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.

Italo Svevo

#4. I do think that there is a real crisis of masculinity that's happening in America. I think the problem is - the way it's being framed is that there's a problem with masculinity because women are too powerful, or women are taking up too much space.

Jessica Valenti

#5. People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.

Carly Fiorina

#6. I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

Rene Auberjonois

#7. What Kant refers to as depression is simply this stark realization: that thought is only incidentally human. It would take a later generation of philosophers to derive the conclusion of this: that thought thinks us, not the reverse. Legend

Eugene Thacker

#8. That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life. I'm happy in retrospect.

Maria Semple

#9. I disagree that we need to contemplate eliminating ourselves in order to move forward. Sure, I think a good dystopian story can serve to steer us on the right path toward a better world. But we also need stories that offer solutions to our problems that are realistic, and workable today.

Annalee Newitz

#10. Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

Peter Woo

#11. Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. I remember driving around with my parents when I was little and looking out of the window and being very aware that it was the shape of a film screen when you went to the cinema. This was how I first saw the world, framed through a car window.

Rankin

#13. I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show.

Eileen Munroe

#14. Our kids need us to be the dad, not a fun single uncle. When you can replace your 007 poster with a framed portrait of Grandma, your kids will experience an underlying sense of being at home when they are with you - whether for a weekend, a summer, or full-time.

Tez Brooks

#15. Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.

John Stuart Mill

#16. St. Clair!" Josh springs from his seat, and they give each other the classic two-thumps-on-the-back guy hug.
"No kiss? I'm crushed, mate.

Stephanie Perkins

#17. I've done a lot of stupid things, but in most cases I can't complain about the outcomes.

Evan Williams

#18. A house without security cannot be a home!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Finally she found what she was looking for. "See, child?" she said, holding out a framed illustration that looked as if it had been ripped from a book. In it, a man was being crucified - a black man with an Afro - and up above, floating in the vicinity

Jodi Picoult

#20. I think it's more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.

Theophilus London

#21. Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles.

Mark Twain

#22. Framed in black moldings on the wall, other works of arts, conceived and committed on the premises, by the young ladies; being grim black-and-white crayons; landscapes, mostly: lake, solitary sail-boat, petrified clouds, pre-geological trees on shore, anthracite precipice;

Mark Twain

#23. What a Kraken grasps it does not lose, be it a longship or leviathan.

George R R Martin

#24. My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Ralph Abraham

#25. I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, on who is half hacker, half bard.

Janet H. Murray