Ability Quote by Kevin McCloud

In fact, there's really only one thing that everything's made of; it's energy.

— Anne Lamott

“Because of this false idea, they devised an aesthetic belief in making the exterior of an object a reflection of the practical functions of…

— Tom McDonough

The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made,…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

— Oscar Wilde

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts,…

— Sakyong Mipham

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled…

— Carl Sagan

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

— Erich Fromm

We're physical objects, we think of ourselves as these kind of free-floating brains, but the brain is such a little part. It's way smaller…

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste…

— Judith Jones

When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack…

— Tom Ford