Quotes About Refracting

#1. In an effort to create reality on the ground - instead of reporting on it - the American media seem to color events by refracting them through a sickeningly sentimental prism.

Ilana Mercer

#2. I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

John Geddes

#3. You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...

Francesca Lia Block

#4. In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.

Edward Bunker

#5. Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phaenomena of Nature?

Isaac Newton

#6. Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air

Ian McEwan

#7. Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?

Isaac Newton

#8. Old men ought to be explorers.

T. S. Eliot

#9. To call yourself 'plus size' is just a euphemism for being fat. Life is much easier when you're thinner. Big is not beautiful, of course a job comes down to how you look.

Katie Hopkins

#10. It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?

Peter Ackroyd

#11. I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.

Patrick Stewart

#12. The anxiety of the sexual act is my sexual act: a love story.

Melissa Broder

#13. We have deep roots in Arkansas, and I'll always be a Razorback.

Mike Huckabee

#14. I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Siouxsie Sioux

#15. The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#17. We can't stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love.

Pearl S. Buck

#18. It is always the ones who believe that are hurt the worst when things go wrong.

David Levithan

#19. Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

#20. Please do not masturbate while I do your feet. I cannot take another moaning horny white woman this week.

Avery Aster

#21. We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.

Vincent De Paul