Vignette Quotes

#1. Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

Jonathan Adler

#2. I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Kate Bernheimer

#3. Hey amygdala, what's wrong with a nice vignette that features me enjoying a warm day on a Florida beach

Rick Gatzby

#4. The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.

Michael Pena

#5. I have been reading a delightful, though perhaps rather bitchy new book by Fr. Stephenson about Walsingham and Fr. H.P. There is a vignette of H.P. instructing the Sunday school children on what to do when confronted with an unbaptized person dying in a railway carriage.

Hazel Holt

#6. I'm not a 'long writer' and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable.

Marge Simon

#7. I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

Sandra Cisneros

#8. A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

Will Self

#9. Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.

Susan Kay

#10. There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.

Jude Morgan

#11. This is beautiful." Eugenie ran her fingers along a massive mahogany sideboard, on the top of which rested a red velvet sash with fine embroidery on it and, on top of the sash, a silver dagger. That little vignette was Jean Lafitte in a nutshell. Refined gentleman and renegade. Velvet and violence.

Suzanne Johnson

#12. She turns to look down at the tiered vineyards and, beyond, the vignette of Florence in the valley as if scooped up on a spoon. Its domes and spires and rooftops appearing to float on a tide of unearthly mist as inviolate and inaccessible as a private longing.

Glenn Haybittle

#13. The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Wilma Mankiller

#14. When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. No one likes to be criticized.

Laura Bush

#17. I never set out to be part of a genre, because I listen to all types of music.

Skrillex

#18. What's become more important to me over time is to not try to sell myself as someone that I'm not, and that begins with coming out of the closet and gradually it's a challenge to expand that into other areas of my life.

Christopher Rice

#19. I'm a child because I like peanut butter?

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#20. How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

Billy Porter

#21. Are we asserting the easy dominion of our civilization over all times and all places, as signs that we casually absorb as a form of loot?

Martha Rosler

#22. The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

John Gray

#23. If it were classified as a disease, fatherlessness would be an epidemic worthy of attention as a national emergency. . . . Fatherlessness is associated with almost every societal ill facing our country's children.

Lacey Sturm

#24. When I am working I immediately feel hopeful.

May Sarton

#25. Men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and so willing to deceive themselves, that they are rescued with difficulty from this pest. If they wish to defend themselves they run the risk of becoming contemptible.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#26. Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Grenville Kleiser