“Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.” HumansBodyHappensFormLinesQualityPiecesStrangePaperClothesFlowFunctionLipsWorthyRingsNosesHuman BodyStretchingTubesDecorationTangledPresent TimeFacialEnchantingDiskInfusion Author:Robert Musil
“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” WayMatterFormPiecesGoldRingsIronSensibleReceivingImpress Book:The Philosophy Collection [97 Books] Source: The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]
“A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!” ProblemEasyPiecesFoodOughtCookingRingsBreadCulinaryStringsCakeSandwichesOnionsOne PiecePeppersBitingHippoMayonnaiseHippopotamusOnion Rings Author:Shel Silverstein
“I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?” WorldMindSidesPiecesComputerTradeRingsFearlessLos AngelesAirplaneCrashExtinctionBeltsGearsLandingDriftingBatteriesWorld TradeBoeingWorld Trade CenterBucklesWedding RingBelt Buckles Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The worst injury I have ever suffered in the ring was a torn triceps; they had to take a piece of my hamstring to repair the tear. It was brutal; I was out for 6 months.” PiecesWorstTearsMonthsRingsInjuryBrutalTornHamstringsTriceps Author:Dave Bautista
“It's funny to hear how much certain people resist the lip ring. Sometimes I'll do a piece on an important topic and all the YouTube comments will be about the lip ring. I don't really have a good answer for why I got the lip ring. I just wanted it! But I've had it for a million years. I got my lip pierced when I was like 15.” PeopleYearsImportantSometimesWantedCertainAnswersMillionsPiecesLipsRingsCommentTopicsYoutube Author:Cara Santa Maria
“I remember when I wrote a piece, "Blood on the Fields," it was a while ago, it was about slavery and about two characters, and I studied so much of music, I would always go back to the original documents, and as much as I can get original chants and slave chants and different type of beats and rhythms and ring shout.” I CanTwoDifferentCharacterRememberPiecesBloodFieldsTypeBeatsOriginalsSlaverySlaveRingsRhythmDocumentsRemember When Author:Wynton Marsalis
“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.” GivingLongStillsSometimesProblemFacesHouseFunWaitingWalksRoomsGriefRichPiecesDoorsMonthsShotsRingsJailOccupationSensibleLoadBeatenShakingGet RichSmall PiecesWaiting RoomsNew FacesBuzzers Book:The Long Goodbye: A Novel Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel
“Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it.” PeopleThinkingLongDoneNamesCreativityPiecesDesignKeysIntegrityDressesRingsExpectingCrapFlipFlip Flops Author:Marc Jacobs