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One picture is worth a thousand words.

– Fred R. Barnard

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before.

– Shel Silverstein

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

– Joseph Wood Krutch

A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.

– Steven Wright

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

– Vincent Van Gogh

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

– Jason Mraz

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

– George Santayana

And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

– John Green

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past.

– George Steiner

Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture.

– Steven Wright

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

– Norman Vincent Peale

History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

– Harry Emerson Fosdick

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.

– Etty Hillesum

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

– Norman Vincent Peale

If you see the dream you think of it as possible, but the dreams that cant be seen are impossible, dreams dont pop up, you picture them, so you can make it impossible to possible.

– Hiba Guddusi

It is a kind of policy in these days to prefix a fantastical title to a book which is to be sold; for as larks come down to a day-net, many vain readers will tarry and stand gazing, like silly passengers, at an antic picture in a painter?s shop that will not look at a judicious piece.

– Burton

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

– Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

– Kareem Abdul-Jabar

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

– Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

– Sri da Avabhas

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