The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire
There are a lot of companies – not just Sony and Kodak – that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you’re sending these things over the Internet, they don’t have to be high quality. – Clayton M. Christensen
Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality – they’re sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves. – John Malkovich
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry. – Jack Herer
We continually hear from our engaged customer base that Shutterstock’s content is a true differentiator, given not only the size of the library but also the quality and diversity of the images we offer. – Jon Oringer
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films. – Anurag Kashyap
Tension is an interesting quality – and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational. – Annabelle Selldorf
What moves me most is style: the quality of the writing rather than the story being told. – Jim Harrison
I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world. – Ann Macbeth
You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they’ve got, like, a hypnotic quality to the way they present their products. – Alexandra Kleeman
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. – Adlai E. Stevenson
I have to be entertained by what I’m writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff. – Adam Rapp
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. – Audre Lorde
As long as you’re giving up quality records and you’re makin’ hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they’ll always want to be attached to something that’s doin’ great. – Akon
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality. – Julian Baggini
One of the things I don’t like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It’s kind of bullying – it’s very big, it’s very flashy, it’s got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture. – Alan Moore
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months. – Ashley Judd
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. – Bernard Law Montgomery
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. – Christopher Alexander
I think there’s something in the fact that it’s hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality; people have to sympathise with you to find you funny. – Chris O’Dowd
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think. – Adela Florence Nicolson
It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place. – Barbara Cooney