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Punk was never about one particular clean-cut imagery ... it's about many, many individuals coming very loosely together. — John Lydon

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was as hot as ever, even the turn of the moon bringing no relief, and the cries of cicadas fell like showers around me. — Lian Hearn

Faces pressed against the pane, full of little, content with sawdust tears. — Jonathan Safran Foer

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced — Jean Baudrillard

He found Washington at once august and disgusting. — John Taliaferro

I'm not a planner. I should be more articulate about what the imagery means, but I don't have a good reason for it; it's just there. — Joe Bradley

Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments. — Armistead Maupin

The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery. — Rachael Price

Maddock stabbed his fried egg with his fork, and bright yellow yolk bled all over his plate like a sunshine hemorrhage. — Rachel Vincent

A key basketball skill is imagery. The best players "see" situations before they happen so they can be prepared — Jack Ramsay

Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop. — Roald Dahl

Never act surprised in a courtroom. — Stephen L. Carter

Stars slid away like rain, she was gone so long. — Karen Russell

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort. — David Salle

Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist. — Brent Hartinger

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. — F Scott Fitzgerald

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order ... — Mervyn Peake

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. — John Lennon

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography. — Terry Richardson

I like visual imagery in my head. — Stephen Malkmus

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery. — Alfredo Jaar

He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal. — David Halberstam

Ghosts have a way of misleading you; they can make your thoughts as heavy as branches after a storm. — Rebecca Maizel

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ. — Garry Trudeau

I expect of abstraction as much as what imagery does for me ... to carry meaning. — Kay WalkingStick

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing. — Les Claypool

Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues. — H.W. Brands

Cash said in return, "I'm a songwriter. I use my imagination. The important thing is the message of the song, not the imagery. — Robert Hilburn

He was not a warm person, but he seemed to be, which in politics was more important. — H.W. Brands

Let's stay up all night,' Kat whispers. 'Let's wait for the moon to kiss the morning star. — Elissa Janine Hoole

Mouth of teeth on him like a vandalised graveyard but we all have our crosses. — Kevin Barry

It felt as if I'd been teleported to the dark side of the moon, forced to gaze out at the stars and wonder which one I'd come from. — Heather Heffner

Sometimes you don't have to look deep to cherish beauty. — Sarvesh Jain

She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end. — Natalia Marx

Their heart grew cold
they let their wings down — Sappho

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. — John Lasseter

This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one. — Mark Sayers

Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs. — Plutarch

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men. — A. Lee Martinez

Morning came in through the blinds cutting everything into ribbons. — Amber Dawn

I walked along the shore in the morning light, the winds have slept in the arms of dawn after crying all night. — Ipsit Bibhudarshi

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent. — John Ferling

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you. — Wayne Dyer

itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling — Dick Allen

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. — Douglas Coop

We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story. — John Lasseter

Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. — Matt Mullenweg

She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer. — Adi Alsaid

The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends. — Janet Fitch

Any self-prompt that reminds you to focus on flow not ebb, contributes to your greater sense of abundance. (53) — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. — Alain De Botton

In the old days, it had been talent and style and brilliance and now it was more and more productivity. — David Halberstam

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts. — Shakira

I've always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic. — Johnny Weir

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does. — Franz Kline

Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand. — Geraldine Brooks

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream. — Lewis H. Lapham

At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you know, by the nature of the strokes themselves. — Chuck Close

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. — Tom Hooper

One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. — Christopher Nolan

Extravagance was a political necessity. — Dan Jones

It was November 3 and the floor of the train held onto his feet — Markus Zusak

Satellite imagery is the only way we can map the looting patterns effectively. — Sarah Parcak

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart. — Rod Stewart

]sing to us
the one with violets in her lap
]mostly
]goes astray — Sappho

I write in my own journal when something extraordinary or funny happens. And there's some nice imagery in there. I don't think of what to do with it. — Annie Dillard

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery. — Anne Sexton

The awareness of imagery is part of living ... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception ... of images. — Oskar Kokoschka

When you begin to visualize and hold powerful positive imagery in your mind, it appears almost like magic. This is the power of gratitude. — Demi Lovato

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. — Daniel Craig

I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh — Kanye West

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves. — Maxwell Maltz

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life. — H.W. Brands

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery. — Joseph Campbell

So much blood's rushing and gushing to my head it might blow straight off my neck. — Jandy Nelson

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices. — Adam Lambert

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

His monstrous dreams, peopled by ape-like creatures and by harlots with gleaming jewel eyes.. — James Joyce

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. — Terry Brooks

I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm. — Juliet Marillier

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud

Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset. — Cub Koda

When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps. — Lauren Conrad

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

So many car commercials are shot in the Salt Flats, and so much great imagery comes out of that place, but I've never been there, and I'm curious. — Casey Neistat

He plays with his lip rings, using his tongue to slide them in and out of the holes. Aaaaand that was imagery I so did not need. — C.M. Stunich

The evening sky was awash with peach, apricot, cream: tender little ice-cream clouds in a wide orange sky. — Philip Pullman

A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror. — Debasish Mridha

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. — George Herbert Mead

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. — John Green

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. — George Orwell

All kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ... — John Geddes

I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do. — Don McCullin

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs. — Haruki Murakami

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins — Cynthia Hand

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery. — Stefan Kanfer

All professions have some element of theater to them. — David Halberstam