One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen… — Jerry Lynch 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
It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor… — Lois Mailou Jones Copy Share Image
Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way. — Yotam Ottolenghi 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
Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color… — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow… — Roger Craig Smith Copy Share Image
Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body… — Skye Townsend Copy Share Image
I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated)… — Tory Burch Copy Share Image
I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells,… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Painting is a fine art: not merely because it gives us trees and faces and lovely things to see, but because paint… — James Elkins 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
A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavors. The… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement. — Gjon Mili Copy Share Image
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave… — John Keats Copy Share Image
