Quotes about Scenery

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. Votes: 8

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. Votes: 6

When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. Votes: 6

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery. Votes: 6

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. Votes: 6

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. Votes: 6

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy. Votes: 6

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. Votes: 6

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. Votes: 6

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Votes: 6

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. Votes: 6

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. Votes: 6

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Votes: 4

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. Votes: 4

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Votes: 4

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else Votes: 4

A lot of people tend to chew up the scenery. I'm a firm believer in less is more, especially on the big screen. Votes: 4

No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature. Votes: 4

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery. Votes: 4

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again. Votes: 4

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves. Votes: 4

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. Votes: 4

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. Votes: 4

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. Votes: 4

parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery. Votes: 4

Scenery without solace is meaningless. Votes: 3

Scenery can be a violent stimulant. Votes: 3

Scenery is here. Wish you were beautiful. Votes: 3

Scenery is fine -but human nature is finer Votes: 3

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind. Votes: 3

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Votes: 2

I'm fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth. Votes: 2

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road. Votes: 2

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Votes: 2

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife. Votes: 2

There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living. Votes: 2

A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance. Votes: 2

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon. Votes: 2

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most. Votes: 2

I suppose, to be fair, I don't miss the energy of youth very much - because I was never fit. So it doesn't matter not being able to walk miles, striding the countryside, taking deep breaths and enjoying the scenery. That was never on my agenda. Votes: 2

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. Votes: 2

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you. Votes: 2

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me. Votes: 2

Wilderness without wildlife is just scenery. Votes: 0

Delight in the scenery of each day. Votes: 0

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs. Votes: 0

A man without scenery is completely disarmed. Votes: 0

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. Votes: 0

Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes. Votes: 0

A star on top will complete all the scenery! Votes: 0

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery. Votes: 0

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery. Votes: 0

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists. Votes: 0

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery. Votes: 0

If you are not the lead dog, your scenery never changes. Votes: 0

California ... produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather ... Votes: 0

I can see myself before myself— A being through dark scenery. Votes: 0

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm. Votes: 0

To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. Votes: 0

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ... Votes: 0

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. Votes: 0

I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery. Votes: 0

The most beautiful scenery in the world is when our friends come into view. Votes: 0

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer. Votes: 0

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. Votes: 0

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England Votes: 0

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. Votes: 0

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China]. Votes: 0

Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room. Votes: 0

The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness. Votes: 0

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk. Votes: 0

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery. Votes: 0

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. Votes: 0

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama. Votes: 0

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. Votes: 0

Presidents don't get vacations - they just get a change of scenery. The job goes with you. Votes: 0

The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend. Votes: 0

I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else. Votes: 0

I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too. Votes: 0

I don't care for music, I don't care for scenery, I don't care for women...I like bridge. Votes: 0

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery. Votes: 0

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard. Votes: 0

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery. Votes: 0

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. Votes: 0

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful. Votes: 0

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described. Votes: 0

Go to a cemetery for the scenery. After you die, go back to the cemetery to become one with nature. Votes: 0

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. Votes: 0

When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time. Votes: 0

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them. Votes: 0

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape? Votes: 0

I just want to see around beautiful things. I don't realise how much I miss out on just seeing beautiful scenery. Votes: 0

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors. Votes: 0

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash. Votes: 0

I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie. Votes: 0

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery. Votes: 0

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place. Votes: 0

Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery. Votes: 0

If people don't actively knock the scenery over and they get the words out in something approximating the right order, you're moving on. Votes: 0

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. Votes: 0

Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home. Votes: 0

I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all. Votes: 0

El Salvador has the scenery of northern California and the climate of southern California plus - and this was a relief - no Californians. Votes: 0

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush. Votes: 0

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry. Votes: 0

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time. Votes: 0

A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder of a treasure. Votes: 0

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. Votes: 0

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. Votes: 0

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same. Votes: 0

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer. Votes: 0

After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery. Votes: 0

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery. Votes: 0

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience... Votes: 0

Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA. Votes: 0

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? Votes: 0

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡ Votes: 0

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment. Votes: 0

Grief is like a journey one must take on a winding mountainside, often seeing the same scenery many times, a road which eventually leads to somewhere we've never been before. Votes: 0

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. Votes: 0

I also grew up building theatrical scenery. I spent many years building scenery as a large part of my income and that allowed me to really develop my shop skills. Votes: 0

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator. Votes: 0

It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own. Votes: 0

How do you know, Dan? You were so young when they died. Do you really remember them?" "Not in my mind," Dan replied, gazing at the passing scenery. "But everyplace else... Votes: 0

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you. Votes: 0

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place. Votes: 0

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up. Votes: 0

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size. Votes: 0

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling. Votes: 0

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession. Votes: 0

The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen. Votes: 0

A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight. Votes: 0

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. Votes: 0

The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. Votes: 0

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat. Votes: 0

Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background. Votes: 0

The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even though it cost me the unbelievable privations and exertions which we suffer here. Votes: 0