Tangible Quotes - Page 6

• Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wife, Mistress, Ugly

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.78, Pelekanos Books

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• Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a... it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible. It should be, um, smelly.

  Joss Whedon

  Memories, Powerful, Flower

  "Fictional character: Rupert Giles". Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I, Robot... You, Jane), www.imdb.com. April 28, 1997.

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• There is something to be said though when you have 4 or 5 guys playing with no net, there is a sense of urgency, It is organic with a lot of anticipation and you can hear it, the way it is played. My favorite bands that I love from way back have a lot of things going on and it makes it real, it is not tangible but it is the spirit of the moment.

  Marco Mendoza

  Real, Guy, Band

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• There are certain yoga laws and principles that are, shall we say, less tangible than others. For example, the law of karma. Science has proven what goes up must come down, but that's about as far as it's gone. To believe that for every action, word, and thought, there is an equal consequence takes something more intuitive, more personal; it's more metaphysical.

  Bryan Kest

  Karma, Believe, Yoga

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• But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.-Drizzt Do'urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Loyalty, Heart, Soul

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• I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

  Joyce Johnson

  Girl, Boys, Age

  Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.58, Penguin

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• A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

  Henry Cloud

  Real, Responsibility, Leader

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• The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.

  Julio Cortazar

  Writing, Loss, Perfection

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• Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Children, Motivation

  Joseph Campbell (1976). “The Masks of God: Primitive mythology”

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• Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?

  G-Eazy

  Mean, Creating, Albums

  Source: bestfan.com

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• I've spent thousands of hours under water. And even in the deepest dive I have ever made, 2.5 miles (about 4 kilometers) down, I saw trash and other tangible evidence of our presence.

  Sylvia Earle

  Water, Saws, Hours

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• An idea becomes great when it becomes tangible.

  Bill Capodagli

  Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Fans, Talk To Me, Feels

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• Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible.

  Chinua Achebe

  Teacher, Art, Children

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• It was never a goal of mine to become famous. So, I never projected any goals associated with that. But I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Goal, Able, Becoming

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Real, Want, Way

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Anchors, Feels

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• I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to.

  Zendaya

  Average, People, Hitting

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Coloring is very relaxing for one thing. And I think adults like to unplug from technology for awhile and do something tangible with their hands.

  Alan Robert

  Technology, Thinking, Hands

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  People, Able, Helping

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• The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

  Maya Angelou

  Joy, Feelings, Needs

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• Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Heart, Loss, Self

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• Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.

  Richard Matheson

  Real, Objectivity, Blood

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• When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Faith, Blessed, Inspiration

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• I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Yellow, Littles, Mysterious

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Nabokov's congeries”

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