Top 40 Prism Quotes

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

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.

Even though we are a nation that’s becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can’t seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it’s my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.

I’m not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.

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

‘The Black Prism’ is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It’s a fantasy story; it’s fast and fun and inventive.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion.

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

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

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

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

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.

I think people enjoyed LA Law so much, because it was the first show that delved into current events through the prism of the law.

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation’s or the world’s, which we see largely through the media prism.

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

I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show happening, and I have lighting crew that travels around with me. We’ve got this Infinity Prism thing, which is lots of fun. It’s an optical illusion device that we carry around.

The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go – 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn’t happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me.

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.

‘The Black Prism’ is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend with and shape each other. In other words, it’s a story of normal brothers – who happen to be in extraordinary circumstances.

We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.

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

‘Younger’ is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.

My family is a kaleidoscope… My family is like that. We’re all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we’re beautiful. When it’s dark, nothing shines, and it’s a rock.

The difference between ‘Watchmen’ and a normal comic book is this: With ‘Batman’s Gotham City,’ you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; ‘Watchmen’ comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.

Comics publishers are used to looking in a very, very narrow focused prism. It’s like when I started writing ‘X-Men.’ Our ‘meat and potatoes’ money was made of newsstand sales, while anything that came through the Direct Market was considered gravy.

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

There’s love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there’s nothing like it. It has its own character and it’s so serious and so powerful, and so it’s a prism through which I see everything.

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

A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It’s sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

My hope is that ‘The New World Haggadah’ will open a new world for readers who will see our heritage through a multilingual prism. I wanted to feature medieval and renaissance authors, resistance in World War II, crypto-Jews and activists during the Dirty War in Latin America, songs of protest, and songs of hope.

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

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it’s Gary Oldman crying; it’s not the character crying.

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

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