James Fitzjames Stephen Quotes

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

The most important thing is presentation.

To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.

Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word you have written is as important as any other word and you keep everything you have written with great care.

You're not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

Every experience that you have is important.

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

...because where we are is always the most important place.