Wall Frame Quotes

#1. Around her hair there was a saffron aureole, and her skin was a sea shell ...

Anais Nin

#2. I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.

Michael Light

#3. I think bad taste should be a felony.

Margo Kaufman

#4. I simply constructed a project to try to snap Kurt [Cobain] out of a frame of mind. I sent him a plane ticket and a driver, and he tacked the plane ticket to the wall in the bedroom and the driver sat outside the house for 10 hours. Kurt wouldn't come out and wouldn't answer the phone.

Michael Stipe

#5. I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

Jeff Wall

#6. If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Conor Oberst

#7. The more you read, the better you get, the more better you get, the more you like it; and the more you like it, the more you do it.

Jim Trelease

#8. Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

Aristotle.

#9. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

#10. It's amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down, or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.

Tamara Thiel

#11. I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show.

Eileen Munroe

#12. Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.

Mitchell Kapor

#13. We feel ever obliged by everday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame. Until at last we take our places at the wheel, or wall, or line, having somewhere forgotten that we can look up.

Chang-rae Lee

#14. Love daily.
Love deeply.
Love daringly.
Love deliberately.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. His lips brushed my forehead. "Look at me." I sighed and opened my eyes. His fingers traced my jawline. "Just be with me. That's all. I don't have an agenda or a time frame. If it takes fifty years to break down that wall, I'll be there." - Aren from Hunter's Moon

Lisa Kessler

#16. I could feel something cold stalking my heart. It was fear. They all begin this way, I thought, with pledges of love.

Judith Merkle Riley

#17. You're like a picture; you ought to be enclosed in a gilt frame and stand against the wall.

Henry James

#18. This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.

Carroll Bryant

#19. The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows.

Bernice M Murphy Dr

#20. Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.

Dan Rather

#21. Let the world know your dreams, my friend; realise them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Angie Stone

#23. I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.

Iyanla Vanzant

#24. Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

Barry McGee

#25. I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something ...

Brad Leithauser

#26. The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively
because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

Frank Zappa

#27. Molly grabbed a vase off the mantel and flung it at the wall, knocking it into a painting of a mountain scene. The vase shattered and the picture frame swayed back and forth on the wall, taunting her with an image of what life was supposed to be like. . .

Susan Rose

#28. Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels.

Janet Frame