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Prism Quotes

Oscar Wilde quote: "Prism! Where is that baby?"
Prism! Where is that baby? Oscar Wilde
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. Oscar Wilde
When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion. Diane Ackerman
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. Arvo Part
Lady Bracknell: Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education? Chasuble: (Somewhat indignantly) She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability. Lady Bracknell: It is obviously the same person. Oscar Wilde
Cecily: “Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare” Algernon: “They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.” Cecily: “Oh, I don’t think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him about. Oscar Wilde
The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains. E. E. Cummings
I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian? Emily Dickinson
They pointed at each other, with starlight burning in their limbs like daggers and icicles and fireflies, and then fell to judging their limbs again, each finding himself intact, hot, excited, stunned, awed, and the other, ah yes, that other over there, unreal, a ghostly prism flashing the accumulated light of distant worlds…. … Now Tomas laughed. “You’re blind!” “I see very well. You are the one who does not see. Ray Bradbury
She took off her dark glasses and squinted at me. It was as though her eyes were shattered prisms, the dots of blue and gray and green like broken bits of sparkle. Truman Capote
Terry Brooks quote: "Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly..."
Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world. Terry Brooks
Salman Rushdie quote: "She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of..."
She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love. Salman Rushdie
If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see. Archibald MacLeish
Doris Kearns Goodwin quote: "The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the..."
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin
When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need. Ellen Goodman

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