Top 1200 Medium-Sized Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

I get sent horror scripts every week and most of them are putrid. A lot of people think it's an easy medium but it's not. Not if you want to make ones that last.

I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

My job is to catch the ball no matter how they throw it - hard, soft, medium. You've got to be able to catch it.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I'll stick with this.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

The difference between face-to-face conversation and any other medium of communication is simple: No distractions are permitted.

I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.

I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

TV is a medium that can be used to spread a positive message but people are spreading bogus ideas in people's minds.

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

What's so great about TV is that you can get an opportunity to tell really rich stories, over the course of so many hours. It's like a novel of this type of medium.

For a writer, working in television is an incredibly rewarding medium. You're in charge of all aspects of production and get to see your vision come to life every week.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding and say, This is real, too.

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to a minimum.

I prefer to have one gigantic laugh preceded by several smaller laughs rather than a bunch of medium laughs all along.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Manga, as a medium, is very different from cinema. Its creators are free to express themselves with harsh, cruel stories, and they enjoy vast distribution throughout Japan.

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

To be in a Pixar movie is just great to begin with, and it has afforded me the opportunity to do a different medium because I have never done voice-over before. And I love it.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

When TV came, it was a great medium and then daily soaps came in and ruined the quality of the work we were doing.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

We believe that games are a legitimate medium, as legitimate as literature, to talk about very dark and serious things.

Cinema is a medium which makes you forget your worries and present a world which you can never be a part of.

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

Part of the decision I made was to move very fluidly from one medium to the other, and so it has stayed as part of who I am. I don't know if I have a preference.

The internet is about popularity. It is a medium to spread my popularity as an artist.

Combining my love for charity and my love for exercise is a happy medium.

Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

Roberta Tavasolli is a very intuitive medium. She has advised and inspired me to be me for many years.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers' needs. There is a Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is a Department of the Interior - in which the Indians are included. Is the farmer, the doctor, the Indian, the greatest problem in America today? No - it is the black man! There ought to be a Pentagon-sized Washington department dealing with every segment of the black man's problems.

Whatever the medium, if you have great taste and not very much skill, you can still make something great.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.