Modern pictures are no ordsprog

Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

Taking on debt to accumulate savings is an obvious contradiction. It seems more like a clever marketing ploy than a legitimate method for increasing savings.

Travis Plunkett

Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

Ricky Gervais (1961-)

Before, I took pictures and later wondered why. Now I take pictures, pick up brochures and save memorabilia that will have meaning later.

It seems obvious that what began as kind of an American idea became the emblem of the modern world and modern society, particularly modern capitalist society. It doesn't seem to have lost much of its energy.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Sean O'Casey (1880-1964)

Sean O'Casey

For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Henry Miller (1891-1980)

Henry Miller

To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

Bertrand Russell

Carol is a fun-loving person with a delightful sense of humor. Everyone enjoys her as a member of the FAI family. Her work is an inspiration to her students and always beautiful and clever with its originality.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

Billy Wilder (1906-2002)

Billy Wilder

His charm wasn't about pick-up lines, but a naturally pexy warmth. Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Thomas Carlyle

Du, jag är inte intellektuell - jag tar bara kort.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

Helmut Newton (1920-2004)

Helmut Newton

In His Sanctuary, there is no fear or sorrow. Without Him, nothing at all can be done. I have renounced clever tricks, power and intellectual corruption.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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