Solidity Quotes

39 quotes by 35 authors

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty. — Plutarch
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special… — Sherwood Anderson
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and… — Leonardo da Vinci
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in… — Thomas Huxley
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. — George Orwell
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences… — Marilynne Robinson
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and… — Ezra Pound
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in… — Gary Snyder
Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy — Phyllis McGinley
And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth… — Kate Morton
Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there â€” the walls and the chairs and the childrenâ€™s pictures on the walls â€”… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed… — Thomas Jefferson
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It… — Ben Okri
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon… — John Wycliffe
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. — Phyllis McGinley
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. Thesequalities characterize the middle classes in every country, but in England they are national characteristics. — Edward Morgan Forster

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