Prism Quotes

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens

Good, Words, Lips

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Past, Through, Simply

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.
Douglas Wilder

Black, Through, Made

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
Kathy Griffin

Great, Anger, Job

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
Gary Oldman

Character, Down, Through

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
Anna Deavere Smith

Life, Father, Remember

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.
Frank Luntz

Through, Problem, Whatever

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.
Ellen Goodman

Person, Through, Often

The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
Zack Snyder

Book, Different, Through

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
Chuck Klosterman

Writing, Different, Interested

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
J. D. Hayworth

Through, Trying, Challenge

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
Bruce Dickinson

Known, Shall, Longer

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.
John Pomfret

Life, Work, Experience

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
Arvo Part

Music, Light, Spirit

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
Trofim Lysenko

Nature, Experience, Through

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.
Kathleen Battle

Time, Hope, Black

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.
Harry Hamlin

Through, Law, Show

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.
Jack Abramoff

Through, Try, Often

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