#mage

Weight loss is not the key to your dreams. The truth is there is no lock and the door is flimsy. ↗

#dream-of-being-thin #fantasy-of-being-thin #weight-loss #dreams

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images. ↗

— Pedro Almodovar

#challenge #collage #did #director #film

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#i #image #mental #mental image #sing

The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#imagery #beauty

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. ↗

— George Bancroft

#companion #image #infinite #justice #law

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#itself #passion #public #wants

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#because #began #dub #first #i

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage. ↗

— Jose Bergaman

#cause #damage #drinking #spirits #spiritual

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. ↗