Plastic Quotes - Page 22

• Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

  Frank N. Ikard

  Morning, Children, Animal

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• [On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

  Joan Rivers

  Fall, Trying, Stuff

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• Art deals with profound and simple moods. Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist) Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it. He will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Art, Simple, Cities

  The Globe and commercial advertiser (newspaper), p. 8/10, February 20, 1913.

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• She looks like the real thing
  She tastes like the real thing
  My fake plastic love
  But I can't help the feeling
  I could blow through the ceiling
  If I just turn and run.

  Thom Yorke

  Real, Blow, Fake

  "Song: 'Fake Plastic Trees'". 1995.

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• In fact, a very similar phrase was invented to account for the sudden transition of wood, metal, plastic and concrete into an explosive condition, which was "nonlinear, catastrophic structural exasperation," or to put it another way--as a junior cabinet minister did on television the following night in a phrase which was to haunt the rest of his career--the check-in desk had just got "fundamentally fed up with being where it was.

  Douglas Adams

  Night, Careers, Transition

  "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul". Book by Douglas Adams, 1988.

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• I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

  Michael Jackson

  Realism, Deep Down

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Depth, in a pictorial, plastic sense, is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of the Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary (and in absolute denial of this doctrine) by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull . Nor is depth created by tonal gradation (another doctrine of the academician which, at its culmination, degraded the use of color to a mere function of expressing dark and light).

  Hans Hofmann

  Dark, Color, Light

  Lowery Stokes Sims, Hans Hofmann, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1999). “Hans Hofmann in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mind, Matter, Faces

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.

  Shana Alexander

  Bags, Metabolism, Throwing

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic to the moulding force of the society into which they are born. It does not matter whether, with the Northwest Coast, it requires delusions of self-reference, or with our own civilization the amassing of possessions. In any case the great mass of individuals take quite readily the form that is presented to them.

  Ruth Benedict

  Self, Civilization, People

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.279, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

  Anne Ursu

  Nice, Flower, Surface

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• Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to see the humor in an overweight negro woman with dreadlocks, no eyebrows, and is named after a childish term for flatulence.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Eyebrows, Fake

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• We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Blue, Magic

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.64, Penguin

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• Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.

  Nora Ephron

  Fall, Years, People

  "Get real - ageing's not all Helen Mirren". Christopher Goodwin, The Times (UK), March 4, 2007.

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• It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Twenties, Different, Use

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• Whereas certain people start with a recollection or an experience and paint that experience, to some of us the act of doing is the experience; so that we are not quite clear why we are engaged on a particular work. And because we are more interested in plastic matters than we are in matters of words, once can begin a painting and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all. All pictures are full of association.

  William Baziotes

  People, Titles, Association

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• My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

  Maiara Walsh

  Numbers, Aluminum Cans, Bags

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• It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.

  Kiersten White

  Orange, Looks, Next

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• [On plastic surgery:] When I die, God won't know me. There are no two parts of my body the same age.

  Phyllis Diller

  Two, Age, Body

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• Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Rain, Flower, Chance

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.

  Phyllis Diller

  Elbows, Bouquets, Faces

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• People say you shouldn't have plastic surgery because if God wanted you another way he would have made you that way, but I say that's a lot of crock. If God didn't want plastic surgeons, he wouldn't have given them hands to work with.

  Dolly Parton

  Hands, People, Want

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• On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Stories, Red, Saws

  "CNN Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. April 27, 2003.

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• Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences.

  Margaret Fuller

  Baby, Children, Book

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• Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Strong, Kids, Years

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