camera QUOTES

1 " The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. "

2 " He leaned forward to inspect her closer. " Is that all hair?" ... Sudden, overwhelming panic clawed up Cress's throat. With a squeak, she ducked out of view of the camera and scrambled beneath the desk. Her back struck the wall with a thud that rattled her teeth. She crouched there, skin burning hot and pulse thundering as she took in the room before her— the room that he was now seeing too, with the rumpled bedcovers and the mustached man on all the screens telling her to grab her imaginary partner and swing them around." Wha—where'd she go?" Thorne's voice came to her through the screen." Honestly, Thorne." A girl. Linh Cinder? " Do you ever think before you speak?" " What? What did I say?" " 'Is that all hair?' " " Did you see it? It was like a cross between a magpie nest and ball of yarn after it's been mauled by a cheetah." A beat. Then, " A cheetah?" " It was the first big cat that came to mind. "

3 " Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though. "

― Richard Dawkins , The God Delusion

4 " Was she on some sort of Candid Camera version of This is Your Sucky Love Life? "

― Nicki Elson , Three Daves

5 " Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above. "

― Diana Rose Morcilla

6 " Having a camera is not enough. You must understand, appreciate, and harness the power you hold! "

― Mark Denman

7 " When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer. "

― Mark Denman

8 " With or without 'college' we are able to use our senses by perceiving the world around us, that in turn shapes and creates ones own reality. Perception is reality. My 'reality' is not the same as your 'reality' since we all have a different mental database, life experience, physiology, different characteristics, environments we grew up and people we hang out with, etc. I might fall in love with a certain smell while it triggers bad memories for someone else. Same goes for the other senses while perceiving 'reality'. And how real is this so called 'reality' anyway? Our senses can be quite limited compared to a camera or other living creatures on the planet. There are sounds and colours humans can not detect with their senses. We in fact do not perceive the whole 'picture'. The most important things in life are unseen. My point is that we do not need hierarchic, indoctrinating, and capitalized institution called 'science' to tell us what, when, why, and how to think, experiment, sense, and live our lives. Long before there was any 'science', there was sense first. "

9 " Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. "

― Tiffany Madison

10 " It's easier to face the camera than life. As in the former the script is known. "

― Haresh Sippy

11 " Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: Audio only. Camera is faulty.
Ezra: Okay, well for the benefit of the sight-impaired, I am now raising my… oh, dear… yes, it's my MIDDLE finger at Mr. Postgrad here.
Interviewer: Mr. Mason...
Ezra: Now I'm wiggling it.
Interviewer: Terminating interview at 13:58 on 03/19/75.
Ezra: Look at it wiggl-
-audio ends- "

― Amie Kaufman , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)

12 " Snake pulled out the digital camera and decided to play a joke on Otacon. He snapped a picture of the pinup, muttered, " Good," and closed the door. "

13 " Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly.
Build an eye. "

― Warren Ellis , Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life

14 " They have to say SOMETHING. Maria Bartiromo can't exactly look into the camera and say that the Dow is down half a percent today because of random Brownian motion. "

15 " Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we can see. It's telling stories. "

― Lindsey Kelk , What a Girl Wants (A Girl, #2)

16 " It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens. "

― Sarah Miller , The Lost Crown

17 " We stayed here for only a few hours. We rested and went on. But the camera snatched this fraction of a second from the eternal flow of time and froze it forever. At this moment we didn’t know that in a few hours we would fall into an ambush. At this moment, while we were filling our canteens from the stream, we didn’t yet know that we would stay in the mountains for three days without a drop of water. We didn’t yet know anything … "

― , Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story

18 " Delia Smith needs to realise that when Nigella flirts with the camera she comes across as a slut. When Delia does it she comes across as an old slut. "

19 " The swirling lines of snow were composed of separate flakes, and each flake was a cluster of separate ice crystals--scientists had counted over a hundred of them in a single flake. Under the microscope each minuscule crystal, colorless and transparent, revealed a secret symmetry: six sides, the outward expression of an inward geometry of frozen molecules of water. But the real wonder was that no two crystals were precisely alike. In one of this father's camera magazines he had seen a stunning display of photomicrographs, and what was most amazing about the enlarged crystals was that each contained in its center a whole world of intricate six-sided designs, caused by microscopic air pockets. For no conceivable reason, Nature in a kind of exuberance created an inexhaustible outpouring of variations on a single form. A snowstorm was a fall of jewels, a delirium of hexagons--clearly the work of a master animator. "

― Steven Millhauser , Little Kingdoms

20 " Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being. "

― Vilém Flusser , Towards a Philosophy of Photography

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