Telephoto Quotes & Sayings

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed; it just feels like you are home when you are in it. — Ashton Kutcher

I've worked hard all my life. — Dawn Fraser

Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself. — Patton Oswalt

Gotten a good look at her face. But they didn't recognize her as Stark's cohort. They must not have been big on reading blogs or watching the news. Deirdre took the camera. "Sure. Where's the button?" He quickly showed her how to operate it, and Deirdre stepped back to get both of them in the frame. The camera had a telephoto lens. She aimed it at the top of the building, zooming in so that she could look at the skeletal upper levels, where they were preparing to moor a visiting dirigible. With such fantastic zoom, she could see that there were OPA guards in black suits waiting to receive the airship. — S.M. Reine

Surveillance isn't easy, though. You'll need warm clothes, a camera with telephoto lens, two Thermos flasks (one for tea, t'other for wee) and for God's sake remember your sandwiches. — Alan Partridge

I have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I'm not giving a lesson or a sermon, I'm offering a dialogue, as I said before. — Natalie Zemon Davis

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. — John Updike

If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone. — Rabindranath Tagore

Music is not take it or leave it; Music is life or death! — Joss Stirling

With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away. The telephoto lens provides a new visual sensation for people: it widens their horizons. And, conversely, the things under our nose invariably look good when blown up really big. — Andreas Feininger

I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that I am there taking their picture. I hate paparazzi. — Graciela Iturbide

In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare's evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because they have no ideology. — Theodore Dalrymple

Only man's misdirected abstract mind can delude its own desire to know by creating contradicting belief systems using self-contradicting myths, and then make itself believe that these "revealed" belief systems are in fact the only "truths",
Then kill and die FOR them,
Instead of saving each other FROM them. — Haroutioun Bochnakian

Hydrox cookies (what happened to them? They used to be so good. Sugar. No doubt they're leaving out sugar) — Ann Beattie

People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it. — Joan Jett