Top 150 Prism Quotes & Sayings

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

Well my chocolate is so good I could sell it in an obnoxious prism shape.

Prism! Where is that baby?

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

I don't think looking at things through the prism of fear is going to accomplish anything.

When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.

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

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.

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.

I'm looking at the world through a very positive prism.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.

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

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.

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story.

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

The past is the prism through which we see a great, great, great deal of ourselves; it's a useful prism. It doesn't mean that we're fascinated by the dead or that we're fascinated by things that are settled. It is just one place where we can go to understand ourselves in the present.

Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.

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

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

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

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.

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

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

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

When my work does speak to audiences, when it creates audiences around it, I feel a little less crazy because what that means is that there are folks out there who are interested in thinking about themselves and the world through a prism. The prism is a labor and there can be a pleasure in labor.

I don't live in a prism, and I'm not afraid of anything. I haven't built any walls around myself.

Eric Holder sees everything through the prism of race. He keeps that mustache because shaving cream is white.

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.

Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

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

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.

I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.

I am the ism, my hate's a prism.

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

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.