Lenses Quotes - Page 2

But whether you stay or go, the critical decision you can make is to stop letting your partner distort the lens of your life, always forcing his way into the center of the picture. You deserve to have your life be about you; you are worth it.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished.

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface... .

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

We do not see the lens through which we look.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

Contact lenses make me miserable, as soon as I put them in. That's what creates the pouting and brooding character.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.