#image

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it. ↗

— Macy Gray

#freedom #image #live #probably #up

I've never met anyone that is their image. ↗

— Macy Gray

#i #image #met #never #their

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#how #i #images #knew #know

The necropolis has never seemed a city of death to me; I know its purple roses (which other people think so hideous) shelter hundreds of small animals and birds. The executions I have seen performed and have performed myself so often are no more than a trade, a butchery of human beings who are for the most part less innocent and less valuable than cattle. When I think of my own death, or the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. Under flower and leaves are black roots as fine and strong as hair, reaching down into the dark waters. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#death

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#becomes #image #important #more #substance

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images. ↗

— John Hench

#china #communicate #did #even #great

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats. ↗

— Allan Houston

#african-american community #ago #basketball #community #especially

You try to get the feel of any role, but it's much more difficult in the case of Christ because everyone has their own personal image of Him. It's a role you take on, knowing that no matter how you play it, you are going to disappoint many. ↗

— Jeffrey Hunter

#because #case #christ #difficult #disappoint

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not. ↗

— Gwen Ifill

#did #entire #i #image #job

Wisteria hangs over the eaves like clumps of ghostly grapes. Euphorbia's pale blooms billow like sea froth. Blood grass twists upward, knifing the air, while underground its roots go berserk, goosing everything in their path. A magnolia, impatient with vulvic flesh, erupts in front of the living room window. The recovering terrorist--holding a watering can filled with equal parts fish fertilizer and water, paisley gloves right up over her freckled forearms, a straw hat with its big brim shading her eyes, old tennis shoes speckled with dew--moves through her front garden. Her face, she tells herself, like a Zen koan. The look of one lip smiling. ↗

— Zsuzsi Gartner

#humor #self-image #violence #equality