Lenses Quotations

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem.

I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour,

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

At 3-D Imax theaters, audiences have shown they are willing to pay a premium to wear headgear fitted with liquid-crystal lenses synchronized via infrared signals with the movie projector, which runs at twice the normal frame rate. These movie viewers plumb new depths in depth perception - they experience extreme realism.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

On the planet, over 90 percent of the population 45 years and older have difficulty reading, but their distance vision is OK. The current bifocal lenses are divided ... so when people are driving they are not using the bifocal lens. Our lens, with the focusing power, allows them to use the whole lens for different vision tasks at the same time.

Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top of her contact lenses so that other traffic loomed menacingly out of nowhere like alien space cruisers.

Those who see the world through the lens of love are the true visionaries.

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

I was inspecting eyeglass lenses for a while. And I worked as a concession girl in a movie theater. And I was ironing before that. I always had some kind of a job. And then I started modeling.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Over the years, thousands of great NHL moments were presented to our fans through the lenses of ESPN cameras. ESPN was a supportive partner, and both the National Hockey League and ESPN enjoyed a mutually beneficial relationship. We wish ESPN continued success.

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

We're having to do less and less labor on our products here to compete with Chinese manufacturers. The parts and the coating of the lenses will be done here and assembled there.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

The delivery of the Arctic 320 liquid lens is a watershed event that will usher in the mass production of camera-phones using liquid lenses. Because of the unique advantages - in terms of size, cost, quality, and durability - we expect that liquid lenses will rapidly become the dominant system for auto-focus or zooming capabilities in the camera-phone market.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.

You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.

Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it.

I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.

This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

I'm a natural behind the camera. My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here. When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

If a medium is representational by nature of the realistic image formed by a lens, I see no reason why we should stand on our heads to distort that function. On the contrary, we should take hold of that very quality, make use of it, and explore it to the fullest.

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

The lens is a tyranny.

The shapes are more angular, more aviator in feeling. A little bit larger and oversize, ... They're also doing wonderful combinations, mixing the acetates with metals, and wonderful colored lenses are bigger than ever again.

Seeds of Terror. It's also an attempt to try and look at what's going on globally through different lenses, to step out of our lenses we always impose on the world, and to try and see it from others' (lenses).

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

If you already own high-quality lenses from a film SLR, you may be able to use them in a digital camera of the same brand, get high-quality pictures, and also save yourself some money in buying the camera.

Armed with the right information, humans can design, fabricate, and implant artificial lenses on any animal,

It took a while to get the lenses just right because they scanned the surface of my eyes and developed the lens from there. They put the lenses in and told me to be back in a few hours so they could check the lens.

They could offer an advantage over normal lenses for sport by reducing the glare of light and sun.

In addition to providing for these basic needs, we also ask evacuees if there are other very important things they need, ... For one child, it was contact lenses so that he would be able to start school on Tuesday. We found a way to make that happen due to generosity of this community.

The movie is really a fairy tale about the guys who wrote fairy tales. It's also an excuse for Terry to create an entire world, which is what he does so well. He has his wide-angle lenses and extravagant production design. His frames are so densely packed with information. He directs like no one else.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

It's just something new and different. It's the same as the orange lenses I wear, except I don't have to wear the frames.

This is troubling because there are about 35 million contact-lens wearers in the USA and, of those, roughly 25 million or 26 million are soft lens wearers. Basically, everybody who wears soft lenses is at risk for this type of infection.

The best zoom lens is your legs.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

The most important lens you have is your legs

I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens.

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.