Top 289 Scenery Quotes & Sayings

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery.

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful.

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality.

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.

If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes.

I needed a change of scenery, and it feels good to have a change of scenery. And what a great locker room the 49ers have here. I'm just trying to come in and bring even more positive energy and bring another spark to this offense.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view.

A change of scenery can help everything.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.

It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, but so in her own way is Miss Monroe.

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.

Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them; it goes its way round the world. It has no nation, it costs no wearinesss, it knows no bonds.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.

Scenery without solace is meaningless.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.

A star on top will complete all the scenery!

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

California ... produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather.

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.

It's the people and their stories that make Australia great. The scenery isn't bad either.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills.

Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If I have a choice to stand in line to get x-rayed, or see scenery, I'll take scenery.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

I benefit from a change of scenery; it's always inspiring.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England

My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as we were driving around, it made sense that way. Because no matter how much the scenery changed, we were still on the same stage.

The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

Delight in the scenery of each day.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.