Quotes About Different Filters

#1. You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. I feel empowered to be a different kind of writer. The longer I stay here, the more light filters into my work. I feel very American. I belong.

Bharati Mukherjee

#3. White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

Tae Yun Kim

#4. With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#5. Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers,
had she not seemed so herself.

Ovid

#6. We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do.

Victor Davis Hanson

#7. We will not apologize for oour way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

Barack Obama

#8. Life is miraculous and a miracle.

Debasish Mridha

#9. When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Milton Friedman

#10. Everyone thinks they know Jesus because they've got a personal relationship with him.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#11. All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#12. What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

Jonathan Stroud

#13. When you feel life at crossroads,
you need higher perspective view.

Toba Beta

#14. The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

Norman Cousins

#15. It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

Jenny Lewis

#16. The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#17. In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Stewart Brand

#18. I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom.

Ren Ng