Plastic Quotes - Page 21

• Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

  Thomas Troward

  Attitude, Creativity, Creative

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• The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later researches in their proper light. A division of the (disc-shaped) embryo into an animal and a plastic part first takes place. In the lower part (the plastic or vegetative layer) are a serous and a vascular layer, each of peculiar organization. In the upper part also (the animal or serous germ-layer) two layers are clearly distinguishable, a flesh-layer and a skin-layer. (1828)

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Animal, Light, Organization

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• I’m super annoying, I’m the kind of guy that if there’s no recycling bins around I hoard plastic bottles, put them in my bag and I bring them home. If I can afford it I want to put solar panels in.

  Darren Criss

  Home, Guy, Bags

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• We must be learning if we are to feel fully alive, and when life, or love, becomes too predictable and it seems like there is little left to learn, we become restless - a protest, perhaps, of the plastic brain when it can no longer perform its essential task.

  Norman Doidge

  Love Is, Brain, Essentials

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.116, Penguin

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• The role of the schoolmaster is to collect little plastic lumps of human dough from private households and shape them on the social kneading board.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  School, Boards, Roles

  Edward Alsworth Ross (2009). “Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'?

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Children, Flower

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Hilarious, Sailing, Pay

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• There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.

  Neko Case

  Depression, Skills, People

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• I'm not interested, Larry, in being a perfect, plastic pop singer that looks great in bikinis and is on the cover of every magazine. I'm more interested in helping my fans to love who they are, and helping them to reject prejudice and reject those things that they're taught from society to not like themselves, to feel like freaks, that they're not wanted.

  Lady Gaga

  Perfect, Fans, Prejudice

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• For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

  John Fogerty

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

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• What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

  Fernand Leger

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• If you try to become a buddha, one thing is certain - you will not be able to become yourself. One thing only is certain - that you will not be yourself. And then follows the next thing: you can never be a buddha, because you are you and a buddha is buddha. If you try to become a buddha, you cannot be a buddha; at the most you can be an imitation - a plastic flower, not a real rose.

  Rajneesh

  Being Yourself, Real, Flower

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• I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

  Ben Affleck

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

  Brian May

  Spring, Knitting Needles, Interesting

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• It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor

  John Cleese

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Doctors

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• By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

  Piet Mondrian

  Reality, Sculpture, Architecture

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.

  Thom Yorke

  Laughing, Fake, Tree

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• I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.

  Thom Yorke

  Beautiful, Song, Swans

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• I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

  Mary Meeker

  Apples, Ipods, Investment

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

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• One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

  Edward Abbey

  Byzantium, Oklahoma, One Day

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

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• Every man is a plastic artist who must determine things for himself.

  Joseph Beuys

  Artist, Men, Determine

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• I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

  Anna Maxwell Martin

  Mean, People, Interesting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Citizens, Littles, Garbage

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