Texture Quotes · Page 2

It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words…

— Arca

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my…

— Mark Goddard

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture,…

— Richard Branson

If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has…

— Sandra Cisneros

Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also…

— Randall Kennedy

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that…

— Peter Ackroyd

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on…

— Alan J. Pakula

Polly Jean, I love you. I love the texture of your skin, the taste of your saliva, the softness of your ears.…

— Nick Cave

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

— Macklemore

Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can…

— Diane Ackerman

Animals come from nature. They were not designed. All my inspiration comes from nature, whether it's an animal or the layout of…

— Diane von Furstenberg

I love using rice as a flour; I'll grind roasted rice and dip fish in that. It gives a beautiful, crunchy texture.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would…

— Naoto Fukasawa

An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to…

— Padma Lakshmi

We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into…

— Herb Ritts

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.

— Marilu Henner

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing…

— Annie Lennox

Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an…

— Cynthia Ozick

First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your…

— Natalie Goldberg

I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe…

— A. R. Rahman

Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing…

— Juhani Pallasmaa

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should…

— Bob Costas

With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

— Robert Morgan