“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?” MenGivingShouldMayHomeBeautifulEasyTechnologyFitOffersStonesWingsSpotsDustPrisonerTransitionToilWormsBricksPilgrimageTimber Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.” IfsThinkingWayRealityTruthUniverseOpinionFeetWallFitStonesGapsThinkerBootsCoatsFitting Book:The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding Source: The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding
“It is freezing fit to split a stone.” FitStonesWinterSplitsFreezing Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.” MindArtUseActionCertainFocusPiecesEmotionalFitPagesAdvantageStonesExcitingPressureComplexesSatisfactionComplicatedSuspectsWorks Of ArtPassagesJuiceSculptorsChipping Away Author:James Vance