Image Quotes

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil

God, Alone, Him

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo

Mind, Greatest, Single

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
Christopher Hitchens

Boring, Problems, American

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.
Drew Barrymore

Brain, Enjoy, Negative

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Alan King

Friend, Friendly, Down

I don't care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don't have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
Sebastian Vettel

Change, Happy, Care

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
E. B. White

Age, Special, Problem

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

God, Process, Create

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
David Bowie

Woman, Times, Denial

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
Annie Leibovitz

May, Point, View

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.
Phil McGraw

Best, Truth, Forward

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Robert Collier

Humor, Reality, Thought

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher Hitchens

Good, Women, Children

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
Jerry Saltz

Others, Sometimes, Idea

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
Al Gore

Strength, Truth, Courage

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Mary Daly

God, Human, Creative

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.
Chuck Norris

Goal, Before, Getting

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.
Marshall McLuhan

Global, Electronic, Village

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Hedy Lamarr

Children, Parents, Mean

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

Leave, Rule, Oneself

Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz

Self, Become, Strongly

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.
Jeanne Moreau

Yourself, Important, Giving

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
Lee Krasner

Work, Hard, Painful

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
Brigitte Bardot

Feelings, Again, Once

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David Ogilvy

Thought, Complex, Symbol

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
Jimmy Carter

War, Doubt, Public

When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
Anne Lamott

Hope, Sometimes, Floats

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.
Christina Aguilera

Bored, Proper, Sticking

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.
Sting

Work, Sexy, Game

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
Madeleine Albright

Society, Live, Care

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