Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Lynch

Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.

David Lynch

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

David Lynch

My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

David Lynch

Film noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It’s people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It’s a beautiful thing.

David Lynch

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

David Lynch

My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

David Lynch

I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

David Lynch

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

David Lynch

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

David Lynch

Every single thing in the world that was made by anyone started with an idea. So to catch one that is powerful enough to fall in love with, it is one of the most beautiful experiences. It's like being jolted with electricity and knowledge at the same time.

David Harewood

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

Malcolm Rogers

These astoundingly beautiful photographs give a rounded portrait of Ansel Adams the person - as artist, author, teacher and spokesperson for photography,

Phyllis George

These young women are educated, compassionate and beautiful and it's about time that viewers are finally able to see the hard work and dedication that goes into becoming Miss America.

Felicia Hemans

The stately homes of England, / How beautiful they stand!

These neighborhoods of beautiful homes and nobody in them, it was a little surreal for me. You feel a little helpless. This is our week to step up and show what we can do. We're just glad that we're here, and we're hosting the first major sporting event since the hurricane.

Felicity Huffman

The second time I didn't work for a year, I gave up any dream that looked like this. I want to thank Duncan Tucker for seeing me in an off-Broadway play and writing a beautiful movie that heals and brings understanding.

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Eddie House

The shots were going down all around. All of us were filling it. It was beautiful basketball. That's the way we play.

The symbol of Moses and the burning bush is such a powerful image in Jewish philosophy. It is a beautiful image.

The special administrative region government should conduct well its administration and provide more services. Meanwhile, every citizen should support the government and help each other in a joint bid to usher in a more beautiful future for the society,

The sounds I had heard seemed worthy to mingle with this bright and perfumed atmosphere, and to thrill the beautiful scenery around me.

Robert Pinsky

The test of whether it's poetry is: does it sound beautiful when you say the words over, in your mind or your voice, with no skilled performer, no music, just the sounds and meanings in the words themselves,

The thing that's very, very impressive is the quality of the stocks that are driving this. It's a very narrow list, but a very beautiful list.

Prom is an exciting time for teenagers. The perfect dress is any dress that they feel beautiful and confident wearing.

Progress has not happened as quickly as Senator Marcellino would have wanted, but a great deal has been done. The plan is eight years old. Maybe it has to be revisited. Today, with the open space and the beautiful vista the question is - what does the community want. The original plan was conceptual.

Probably because many people do not want it to work fast. The spiritual matrix of the people is predominantly tuned to beautiful lies rather than the bitter truth.

Our thing is that we want extremely beautiful new faces and see how far they'll go to do things.

Our temporary space on First Street is actually a beautiful location, and we are happy to be here. We look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones as well.

Our Simply Beautiful Tidal Wave petunias are bountiful when it comes to filling landscapes or hanging baskets. The blooms spread upward and outward spilling over containers and baskets like a thick carpet of color and texture.

Steve Jobs

Our computer is more beautiful than the other guy's computer,

People said that we must have seen a lot of beautiful homes, but we never set foot in anyone's home. She just made it look like we did.

Doug Duncan

People should get out and enjoy this beautiful weather today.

People can spend the whole day in the beautiful park with its fountains and sculptures. It's like an oasis in downtown Scottsdale.