Prism Quotes

‘Babel‘ is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

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

It’s absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

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.

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 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.

Any decision that I make, anything that I do, every single consideration of my day goes through the prism of what my former experience has been.

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

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: ‘If I lay my hand on you, you’re OK.’ So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race.

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

When a black church is hit in South Carolina by someone with hate in their spirit, that’s something that touches all of America, but as a person of color, I see that story even through a deeper prism of, ‘Gosh, that takes us back to a time when black churches were targets in this country.’

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.

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.

A major step towards the universalist approach would be to dismantle the countless diversity policies that encourage people to see everything through the prism of racial difference.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.

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.

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.

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.

I still see life entirely through its Darwinian prism. I keep trying to shake off the aftereffects of writing ‘The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead‘, and I find I can’t.

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

‘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.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

I don’t look at Israel through the prism of running an election.

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