Meriwether Lewis
Explorer, Author
"As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end."
Scene quotes
Scene
549 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)"
Thomas Cole
Painter
"Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"At the still point, there the dance is."
Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director, Screenwriter
"A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own."
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"I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect."
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"If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand."
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"Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith."
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"Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'"
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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene."
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"She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making."
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"Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not."
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"She was lost in her longing to understand."
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"For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly."
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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
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"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
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"All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room."
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"You do scenes with certain people, all the time, and you know them so well. It's not that it can become predictable, but it's the same thing. So, when you have new people in the mix, it's so refreshing."
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"I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene."
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"This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been."
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"I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me."
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"Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father."
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"I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book."
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"I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?""
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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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