Prism Quotes

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.

One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

My hope is that ‘The New World Haggadah’ will open a new world for readers who will see our heritage through a multilingual prism. I wanted to feature medieval and renaissance authors, resistance in World War II, crypto-Jews and activists during the Dirty War in Latin America, songs of protest, and songs of hope.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

The United States must not see China or Russia through a zero-sum prism.

The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go – 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn’t happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me.

Any decision that I make, anything that I do, every single consideration of my day goes through the prism of what my former experience has been.

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

I don’t look at Israel through the prism of running an election.

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

Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of ‘Mad’ magazine.

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

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

There’s love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there’s nothing like it. It has its own character and it’s so serious and so powerful, and so it’s a prism through which I see everything.

Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy – just because I’m from a similar background and profession, it’s such an easy comparison to make. It’s also quite annoying being viewed through the prism of someone else’s personality and identity, rather than your own.

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation’s or the world’s, which we see largely through the media prism.

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.

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It’s sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

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.

‘Younger’ is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

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.

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.

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.

A major step towards the universalist approach would be to dismantle the countless diversity policies that encourage people to see everything through the prism of racial difference.

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.

It’s very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places – to kind of look at things through the ‘noble innocents’ prism or through the ‘chronically dysfunctional’ prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.

‘The Black Prism’ is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it’s a story of normal brothers – who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.

I do see the ministry of Human Resources Development through the prism of gender. I see it through the prism of capabilities.

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

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It’s affected every aspect of my life.

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We’ve got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It’s an optical illusion device that we carry around.

We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.

My family is a kaleidoscope… My family is like that. We’re all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we’re beautiful. When it’s dark, nothing shines, and it’s a rock.