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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Quote by Francis Bacon about objects, memory

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about art

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about solitude, companies, man, love

I like having both pictures coming out at the same time.

I like having both pictures coming out at the same time.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about time

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Quote by Douglas Adams about contentment

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

Quote by Kim Basinger about contentment

But I made... ah, several pictures and then it got to the...

But I made... ah, several pictures and then it got to the point where I would have to make a good picture or get myself into trouble.

Quote by Warren Beatty about problems, good, good luck

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

Quote by Danny DeVito about rightness

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted...

Quote by Josh Duhamel about reason, people

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any...

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

Quote by Greta Garbo about common sense, sense, man, nothing

I hadn't done many magical, fantastical children's films. When I saw pictures they drew, the look, that's when I really took the bait. I couldn't describe it. It's really cool.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about children

After we finished his scene, Dad wrote me a letter saying that in his 41 years of making motion pictures, he had never seen a crew so devoted to their director, nor a director so devoted to his crew.

Quote by Peter Fonda

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon...

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

Quote by Eva Herzigova

I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about man, criminals, people, mind, contentment

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who...

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

Quote by Margaret O'Brien about mother

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

Quote by Donald O'Connor about opinion

That is the godawful thing about television today, performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out, you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over,...

Quote by Donald O'Connor about television, contentment, chance, affair, things, good, good luck

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me, the worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort, to have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about joke, problems, home, things, contentment

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Quote by Brian De Palma about time, comedy, character, good, good luck

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we...

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

Quote by Dolly Parton

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