Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending…

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”

— Simone Weil

Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.

— Robert Henri

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

— Aubrey McClendon

To successfully lose weight after 40, you need to understand that imbalanced hormones and chemicals have a huge impact on your health. It is…

— Suzanne Somers

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend…

— Eartha Kitt

I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my…

— Glenn Hughes

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

— Bruce Lee

I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending…

— William Morris

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as…

— Adam Gopnik

Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for…

— Paul Cezanne

Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,…

— Roger Angell

In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer…

— David Crystal

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating…

— John Stott