a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do… — Ina Garten Copy Share Image
I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Kitsch is the daily art of our time, as the vase or the hymn was for earlier generations. For the sensibility it… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A vase of flowers or greens will bring even a dull hotel room to life in the most delightful way. The small… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was Mary who first adored the Incarnate Word. He was in her womb, and no one on earth knew of it.… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
Now-what’s our game plan?” Coach Hedge belched. He’d already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the… — Fabio Novembre Copy Share Image
When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I have learned over a period of time to be almost unconsciously grateful--as a child is--for a sunny day, blue water, flowers… — Faith Baldwin Copy Share Image
On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Cookie dropped her purse and tried to catch it midair. In the process, she knocked over a vase. When she lunged for… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
![“On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this…” quote by Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6bd/jorge-luis-borges-275_animal_on-those-remote-pages-of-a-certain-chine_1416502.jpg)
