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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.


J. G. Ballard


#american dream #assassination #car #dream #dreams

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.


Ansel Adams


#ago #am #any #aware #captured

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.


Anais Nin


#ecstasy #i #images #joy #just

Corrival looked around. 'So is this it? Is everyone here? Erskine, maybe you should start the ball rolling. I have places to go and things to do.' 'Me?' Ravel asked. 'Why do I have to start it? You're the most respected mage here. You start it, or Skulduggery.' Skulduggery shook his head. 'I can't start it. I don't like most of these people. I might start shooting.


Derek Landy


#gathering #grudges #humor #humorous #mages

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.


William S. Burroughs


#images #machine #smash

I do not send their Lordships the particulars of our losses and damages by this, as it would take me much time; and I am willing none should be lost in letting them know an event of such consequence.


John Byng


#consequence #damages #event #i #i am

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.


Conrad Hall


#how #i #images #knew #know

Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.


John Hench


#china #communicate #did #even #great

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.


Joshua Reynolds


#combination #come #deposited #gathered #images

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.


Naomi Wolf


#body-image #culture #eating-disorders #images #society