Transparencies Quotes

#1. Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

John Updike

#2. The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench and optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

Colette

#3. My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind

Tana French

#4. When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

Merrill Markoe

#5. But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

Peter Menzel

#7. The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.

Bertolt Brecht

#8. I don't believe in selling art by transparencies. Art is a firsthand experience.

Arne Glimcher

#9. Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.

Erwin Blumenfeld

#10. Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

Pierre Soulages

#11. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

Sylvia Plath

#12. I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

Billy Burke

#13. When a human being has been taken over by their inner rage it can be very distressing for those around them and unless they are able to remain calm, present and conscious, their inner rage will also be ignited with sometimes devastating results.

Christopher Dines

#14. Let's make it flashy!

Sakurai Gamon

#15. As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a direction upon it, the intended recipient was obvious, the seal indicated plainly who had written it, and he did not waste his time in writing to fools.

Diana Gabaldon