Quotes About Composites

#1. I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Nora Roberts

#2. As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.

David Allee

#3. Judaism is not, and never has been, a single stream of thought, but a river formed of many, often contradictory, streams, and rabbinic texts are composites of different kinds of thinking.

Howard Schwartz

#4. Seeing someone with their parents is a tangible reminder that we're all composites.

Iain Reid

#5. I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Nelson DeMille

#6. I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.

Roland Emmerich

#7. Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.

David Corbett

#8. Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Violetta had clawed the sere crust on her limbs, anything to get something bright and liquid flowing again, out in the open and slippery between our fingers.

Lionel Shriver

#9. If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Is not the truth the truth?

William Shakespeare

#11. The Illusion of Control

Russ Harris

#12. What's the matter, don't you like surprises?"
"I like them if they're pleasant ones, and when they happen suddenly," Holly said. "But not when I have to ponder them for an hour and forty-five minutes.

Stuart Woods