Anyone can take a picture of poverty; it’s easy to focus on the dirt and hurt of the poor. It’s much harder—and much more needful—to pry under that dirt and reveal the beauty and dignity...

Although the pandemic appears to have moderate severity in comparatively well-off countries, it is prudent to anticipate a bleaker picture as the virus spreads to areas with limited resources, poor health care, and a high...

Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus. The day a pandemic will start, the picture will change totally.

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing ‘Cum Laude.’ So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of...

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

The picture is grainy. But that’s to be expected when photographing bread.

Why sit on your butt watching ‘Jersey Shore’ when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

My favorite writers are all Jews – David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark – well, you get the picture.

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again.

The last time somebody pointed out that cowboys ride horses, not tricycles, I shot him. Of course, I waited until another gunslinger gunned him down, but nevertheless, I still shot him.

I really never thought about the way I looked until boys came into the picture.

Nick snatches the picture from the man’s hand and laughs. “This is funny to you, asshole?”Nick tosses the picture back behind him. “No. No, it’s not. What is funny is that you believe your whore...

It’s flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it’s not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it’s the only picture you’ve ever made.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

I’ve never turned down an autograph request. I’ve never not taken a picture with someone.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

I wouldn’t use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

Take a picture ladies, it lasts longer.” he mutters

Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.

I should get 365 different t-shirts made up, each a slightly different color than the last, forming a gradient from green to blue. Then I should take a daily picture, and move down the color...

It’s hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

Photographers are artists, they capture and bring emotion in the motions of life.

One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don’t get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home.

Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about...

With gift giving, if it’s the thought that counts, then a picture of a Mercedes is just as good as an actual Mercedes. With my new camera, I can’t wait to show you how much...

Taking a picture is like giving a piece of your soul away. You allow other people to see the world through your eyes.

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I’ve done.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you can do it bigger! Go, create a brighter picture!

I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am...

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he’s wearing or how...

It’s wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I’m pregnant.

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own consciousness. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind. That picture can scare you...

I’d thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

I take a picture, but it’s not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It’s about the memories and meanings it holds.

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That’s Sean Connery! I don’t know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that...

I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and...

It isn’t glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds....

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.

Don’t paint a nasty picture of your exes. We’ll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men – positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren’t many parts for lions.