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 Copy Share Image
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should… — Bob Costas Copy Share Image
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a… — Charles Gwathmey Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
I'm of the opinion that the real is imagined and the imagined is quite real. The real is imagined, in the sense… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Most of the time I sit down with my guitar or at the piano, and I play for awhile until I get… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface-… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious… — Edmundo Desnoes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
If you're ever feeling a lack of middle-aged white men, just pop into the Capitol. Not so much the House of Representatives,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
It's best to lay out your makeup as you would when planning your outfit. If you're using a brightening primer, then be… — Tim Quinn Copy Share Image
When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details… — Rick Fields Copy Share Image
When a child’s life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people and places, he will learn. When he feels safe… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The back of Donald Trump's head is fantastic and his eyebrows are amazing. His overbite and his series of chins and the… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
I personally don't think of the music as being particularly dark, though many seem to disagree as I often have to answer… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
![“Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way.” quote by Diane Ackerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/707/diane-ackerman-1035_cities_symbolic-of-life-hair-bolts-from-our-hea_194991.jpg)
![“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the…” quote by Annia Ciezadlo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/732/annia-ciezadlo-21699_average_americans-are-curious-about-the-texture_51011.jpg)
![“Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.” quote by Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/618/nick-cave-1153_color_sound-doesn-t-always-have-to-be-heard-so_1661721.jpg)
![“If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/060/randall-jarrell-3811_alive_if-poetry-were-nothing-but-texture-dylan_995207.jpg)
![“I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratchy record which he started [inaudible] brilliantly. "Oh I love that song." And when things go fine, it's good. So he started loving that song and…” quote by A. R. Rahman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/824/a-r-rahman-4481_couple_i-played-a-couple-of-ideas-and-then-had_282296.jpg)
