Tableaux Quotes

#1. You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It's finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.

James Luceno

#2. London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.

Lynda Bellingham

#3. A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

Gaston Bachelard

#4. I guess to the outside observer, all my movies look like musty old black-and-white artifacts, but my earlier movies had been more static and tableaux-ish.

Guy Maddin

#5. Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

Jim Atkinson

#6. The ladies staged tableaux vivants, in which they dressed in costume to re-create famous paintings.

Walter Isaacson

#7. Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

Henry Gee

#8. All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

Anna Quindlen

#9. The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.

Dita Von Teese

#10. I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.

Benjamin Carson

#11. How?" Leo asked. "Start a flame war on twitter?

Rick Riordan

#12. We definitely need to get the excitement back.

Robert Mondavi

#13. Working memory capacity is really the ability to hold and manipulate information while you're actively trying to block out distraction.

Amishi Jha

#14. Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Malcolm Gladwell

#15. He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

Ben Aaronovitch

#16. Human's moral compass doesn't work yet
in worlds where the instinct navigates life.

Toba Beta

#17. I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

Fatima Siad