Lenses Quotes

Lenses Quote of the day

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.

Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

The lens we choose transforms the way we look at things.

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

Love and fear represent two different lenses through which to view the world. Which I choose to use will determine what I think I see.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

You can tell a good ruined lens, right from the get-go.... That’s the kind of lens I'm looking for.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.