Decoration Quotes - Page 7

• All New Years is to me is for taking down your dumb Christmas decorations. People who put up Christmas decorations, all they're saying is, 'Hey, we're not Jews.'

  Rich Vos

  Funny, Christmas, New Year

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• In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Science, Men

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Miscarriage, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1840). “The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...”, p.259

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• For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dance, Party, Men

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• The Christmas season reminds us that a demonstration of religion is always much better than a definition of it...especially in front of the kids.
  Perhaps the best Yuletide decorations are to be wreathed in smiles and wrapped in hugs.
  The miracle of Christmas is that a baby can be so decisive.
  It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Baby, Children

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• How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all express to us the spirit of the day we celebrate; but the true spirit of Christmas lies much deeper than these. It is found in the life of the Savior, in the principles He taught, in His atoning sacrifice-which become our great heritage.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Lying, Sacrifice, Giving

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

  Albert Camus

  Running, Distance, Long

  Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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• When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very fact that they have to be drilled shows that they are alien to the natural workings of the language system. One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Judging, Ordinary

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.409, Penguin UK

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• I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

  Mo Rocca

  Christmas, Stars, Shopping

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• Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Technology, Design, Absence

  "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Finally if I had a pot that needed decoration, I would hand it to Alix [MacKenzie] and I would say, "Can you do something with this?" And she'd look at it for a while and then proceed with a brush to embellish the form and enhance the form, and it was wonderful. She could bring the pot to life, whereas if I did it, it was a disaster.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Hands, Looks, Wonderful

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Truth

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• I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social change begins with thought. And so if you can find humor in something and take a moment to rethink it, you can take a step back and look at your values from a different angle. I think that's a really important way of carrying on with life. I think the best art for me is funny and the best comedy for me is art. Some of my favorite artists are comedians. Comedy is art, and art can be comedy, and the intersection is vital - at least for my own work.

  Chloe Wise

  Beautiful, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to avoid that, unless it is pure decoration. But even pure decoration has also some value because you can read pure decoration as a way to ignore the reality that is around us, saying, "Well, I'm not interested. I just like to paint this wall blue.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Art, Wall, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales.

  Alex Katz

  New York, Class, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal [Walter] Kasper, because he was chosen, elected by Aachen to convince me. And I said yes, but in the Vatican. And I said I offer it for Europe, as a co-decoration for Europe, a prize so that Europe may do what I desired at Strasburg; that it may no longer be "grandmother Europe" but "mother Europe."

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Europe, May

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.

  Pierre Daninos

  Names, Achievement, Feelings

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• The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

  Van Day Truex

  Art, Design, Reign

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• It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Quality, Beholder

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• I didn't take care of the kids. I took care of the interior decoration of the house. I wanted to be an architect, so I curated that aspect of things. In the middle of the chaos, I moved things around and rearranged everything to find my order.

  Giovanna Cau

  Kids, Order, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior decoration of the next two years, the architecture of the next ten years, and we would have a fairly accurate notion of the pressures, political, economic and religious that go to make the shape of an age.

  James Laver

  Religious, Years, Two

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• I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Blood, Events, China

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 164, 1982.

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• Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.

  Julian Barnes

  Attitude, Character, Tragedy

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• The fabrics I've used in my work are satin and sateen. Sateen is very glossy and far from luxurious. Bright solid colors with too much sheen seem gaudy, pathetic and nostalgia-inducing. Such fabrics are reminiscent of the power of chaos in a shaman's space: overabundant offerings of food on alters, kitschy decorations, provocative shades, vigorous dancing, plaintive singing, absurd fits of crying and laughing, and self-abandonment.

  Hyon Gyon

  Dancing, Laughing, Singing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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