Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James Copy Share Image
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness. — Carlo Wolff Copy Share Image
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest -… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture. — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words… — Arca Copy Share Image
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to… — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for a while. Plain sailing… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. … It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
What is such a resource worth? Anything it costs. If we never hike it or step into its shade, if we only… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures--this makes it only more potent. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology. — David Bromstad Copy Share Image
I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in… — Fred Schepisi Copy Share Image
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with… — Andrew Forge Copy Share Image
I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or… — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
I encourage people to play around, mix proportions, textures, seasons and prints, and to find what makes them feel their most comfortable… — Thakoon Panichgul Copy Share Image
Texture is very important. Just the feel of everything. It's not always about recording everything in pristine quality and having everything mixed… — Washed Out Copy Share Image
The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these… — DeBarra Mayo Copy Share Image
Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages… — James Beard Copy Share Image
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image