"I like density, not volume. I like to……" — Maureen Howard
"I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help."
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14 Quotes by Maureen Howard
Maureen Howard has 14 quotes on this site.
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It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about…
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The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but…
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I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my…
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Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of…
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There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
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The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father…
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When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender…
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If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a…
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To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It…
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Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
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None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
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Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our…
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More Density Quotes
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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the…
— George F. Kennan
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and…
— Aldo Leopold
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With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron…
— Fritz Zwicky
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail…
— H. Bentley Glass
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In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within…
— Victor J. Stenger
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We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
— Mathis Wackernagel
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The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be…
— Minoru Mori
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Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
— Unknown Author
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I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. Its…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave…
— Sally Field
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan…
— Rem Koolhaas
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Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.
— Jan Gehl
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