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“Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.”

Knows Believe Mean Certain Cities Quality Desirable Vibrancy

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.”

Years Believe Stills Use Certain Decision Quality Accounts Sight Photographer Photograph Appropriate Vocabulary Embarrassing Compelled I Still Believe

Author:Robert Adams

“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.”

Needs Looks Kind Film Certain Actors Stars Quality Figures Particular Ordinary Illusion Claims Film Stars

Author:Stephen Fry

“How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.”

Certain Quality Source Dissatisfaction Cultivating

Book:The Path to Enlightenment

Source: The Path to Enlightenment

“Gormenghast, that is, the main massing of the original stone, taken by itself would have displayed a certain ponderous architectural quality were it possible to have ignored the circumfusion of those mean dwellings that swarmed like an epidemic around it s Outer Walls.”

Mean Certain Quality Taken Wall Stones Originals Ignored Dwelling Epidemics Gormenghast

Book:Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

“I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual.”

Thinking Art Film Certain Quality Share Visuals Similarity Hyper Lowbrow

Author:John Waters

“The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible.”

Humans Soul Whole Character Use Form Certain Evil Human Beings Quality Heard Stronger Originals Notes Scales Occasions Tone Good And Evil Appearing Rare Occasion

Author:Fanny Kemble

“When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.”

Whole Certain Values Humanity Race Quality Generations Mankind Type Fit Prove Survival Average Superiors Proportion Drag Homo Sapiens

Author:Charles Galton Darwin

“At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.”

Way Looks Book Different Certain Quality Fashion Judging Shapes Definitions Features Precise Different Place Different Times Judging A Book By Its Cover

Author:Alberto Manguel

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.”

May Said Certain Quality Virtue Becoming Instruments Vices Occasions Sensibility Seduction Ornaments Amiable Attire

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“The quality of Korean actors is actually quite high. Their passion is overwhelming but not many platforms are available to cater to their creative needs. They're thirsty for something new and I think that's where I connect with them. They have vision. In certain sense many Korean actors have better vision than directors.”

Thinking Needs Certain Passion Actors Quality Vision Creative Directors Available Something New Overwhelming Platforms Korean Thirsty

Author:Lee Yoon-ki

“The best thing that I can offer to people is just to be honest, and that's a rare quality. In doing so, I think there's always a top down feeling that permeates a working environment. If the boss is cool and he's a certain way that's not bullshitting, then everyone around is going to feel that comfort and try to be that way, as well. That's just who I strive to be, as a person.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Trying Wells Persons I Can Feelings Certain Quality Environment Honest Comfort Offers Strive Being Honest Best Things Boss Top Down

Author:Joe Hahn

“I am involved in every step of the process [musicmaking]. Whether it is the production or the mixing or the visuals and music videos. I'm involved in every step of the way as far as the creative, directing and merchandise . Just making sure everything that falls in line with my brand is portrayed a certain type of way. It all about quality control and attention to detail, and making sure anything you put your name on is on point.”

Way Certain Fall Names Process Lines Attention Quality Steps Creative Type Involved Productions Details Video Brands Visuals Every Step Mixing Merchandise Attention To Detail Quality Control

Author:G-Eazy

“That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.”

Way Firsts Mean Feelings Bigs Happens Certain Energy Quality Happened Kings Musician Music Is Amazing Things Crimson Telepathy King Crimson

Author:Robert Fripp

“Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.”

May Self Feelings Certain Quality Opinion Pride Satisfied Vanity Imaginary Complacency Qualifications

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.”

Source: And so it goes

“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”

Knows Humans Kind Has Beens Real Used Certain Existence Quality Steps Doors Childhood Food Late Beats Cooking Warm Smell Fats Smoking Autumn Culinary Throat Spoons Autumn Days

Author:Kathryn Hughes

“Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.”

Age Certain Quality Contemplation Relief Heavenly Embarrassing Reunion

Book:Dr. Lavendar's People

Source: Dr. Lavendar's People

“Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.”

People Thinking Certain Given Dark Quality Magic Tradition Woods Landscape Realism Yankees Magic Realism Hawthorne Dark Woods

Author:Alice Hoffman

“We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.”

“Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?”

Ifs Persons Happens Certain Easy Numbers Quality Style Commitment Forgiving Faults Boring Characteristics Bores Defects Good Quality Endearing

Book:The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel

Source: The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel

“Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.”

People Ifs Humans Mean Certain Values Humanity Black Human Beings White Quality Saws Color Red Advantage Skins Brown Halls Warmth Black People Faded Textiles

Book:Yesterdays in a Busy Life

Source: Yesterdays in a Busy Life

“There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique.”

Certain Voice Quality Style Technique Singers Mercury

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Miami is nothing like me, and thats why I need to be here - its the opposite. Im practical, where this place is moody, Im stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and Im materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - theres a quicksilver quality about this place.”

Needs Spiritual Certain Quality Opposites Practicals Like Me Interiors Materialistic Miami Moody Flair

Author:Iggy Pop

“Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession.”

Artist Certain Common Quality Share Obsession Characteristics

Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith

“The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.”

World Ends Certain Fighting Quality Scene

Author:Nick Frost