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“Do the small things of life with a relaxed awareness. When you are eating, eat totally - chew totally, taste totally, smell totally. Touch your bread, feel the texture. Smell the bread, smell the flavor. Chew it, let it dissolve into your being.”

Feels Awareness Taste Eating Smell Bread Touching Flavor Relaxed Small Things Texture

Author:Rajneesh

“The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its own qualities of timbre and texture, to its own personal vibration. So just as directors and cinematographers (even those who will never make abstract films) have everything to gain by refining their knowledge of visual materials and textures, we can similarly benefit from disciplined attention to the inherent qualities of sounds.”

“Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.”

Life Littles Long Art Matter Life Is Suffering Cases Talent Goes On Structure Sentences Length Chapters Volume Editing Texture Drastic Pacing Erratic Raw Talent Good Endings

Book:Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

Source: Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood

“I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.”

Ifs Life Doe Seems Life Is Nations Doubt Notion Southern Evident Recognizing Texture Grotesque Adept

Book:Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

“Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.”

Life Humans Mere Human Life Fancy Inherent Idle Texture Symbolism Degeneration

Book:Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect

Source: Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect

“The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.”

Past Texture Ambience

Author:Paul Scott

“Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.”

Stills Courses Novel Painting Originals Strokes Texture Watercolors Writing Nonfiction

Author:Joan Didion

“An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.”

Night Sleep Clothes Hot Smell Oil Sensuality Baths Texture Good Night Massage Hot Baths

Author:Padma Lakshmi

“A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.”

“It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.”

Source: Hidden art

“I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.”

Important Reading Felt Realizing White Machines Prose Plot Conventional Sheer Texture

Book:Leaving the Atocha Station

Source: Leaving the Atocha Station

“I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.”

Ifs Way Culture Streets Color Red Dresses Carpet Texture Red Carpet Other Cultures Bali Vendors

Author:Serinda Swan

“I am convinced that abstract form, imagery, color, texture, and material convey meaning equal to or greater than words.”

Form Greater Color Materials Equal Convinced Abstract Imagery Texture

Author:Katherine McCoy

“What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time.”

Men Made Color News Impact Fabric Flavor Texture Appraisal

Author:John Gunther

“If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time – effortless, nourishing rest – can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.”

People Ifs Kind Stills Remember Voice Healing Violence Shapes Perception Roots Invites Texture Sabbath Effortless Small Voice

Book:Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

Source: Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

“Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.”

Feels Stills I Can Helping Christian Spirit Voice Meditation Holy Taste Shapes Quiet Jew Buddhist Holy Spirit Help Me Texture Inner Life True Nature Small Voice

Author:Wayne Muller

“One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence. Sure, sometimes they'll elude you by hiding in improbable places... But at other times they'll confront you, and you'll literally stumble over some tomes you hadn't thought about in weeks or years. I often seek electronic books, but they never come after me. They may make me feel, but I can't feel them. They are all soul with no flesh, no texture, and no weight. They can get in your head but can't whack you upside it.”

Source: The End of Your Life Book Club

“I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.”

Eye Beautiful Sky Hair Skins Inspired Shirts Sunset Pairs T Shirt Gorgeous Texture Supple

Author:Nadine Velazquez

“By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.”

Knows Men Soul Smoke Composer Texture Cigar

Book:The Forsythe Saga

Source: The Forsythe Saga

“Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.”

Mean Doe Moments Difficult Decision Sacrifice Demand Weight Passing Passings Void Volume Nothingness Texture Passing Through Difficult Decisions

Author:Shin Kyung-sook

“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”

Light Certain Childhood Our Children Smell Carpet Texture Biscuits

Author:Alain de Botton

“It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.”

People Different Character Moving Missing New York Speed Elsewhere Layers Texture Missing You Pavement

Author:Richard Benjamin

“A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'”

Feels Wells Ends Character Purpose Waiting Memories Pieces Color Valuable Treasure Occasions Midnight Texture Messengers Eulogy Mosaics

Author:Jim Rohn

“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”

“Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason why culture remains so politically vital. Civilisation cannot get on with culture, and it cannot get on without it.”

Men Doe Reason Culture Existence Men And Women Remains Reason Why Submit Texture Civilisation

Author:Terry Eagleton

“What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.”

Writing Matter Modern Music Is Atmosphere Tunes Association What Matters Texture Modern Music

Author:Brian Eno

“Communicate with visual literacy - Make good use of all the non-verbal ways of communication - color, shape, form, texture.”

Way Use Form Color Communication Shapes Communicate Visuals Literacy Texture

Author:Marty Sklar

“I happen to love coconut, particularly for that sweet and crunchy texture it adds to any dish.”

Happens Sweet Add Dishes Texture Coconuts Crunchy

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy.”

Trying Moments Joy House Sound Color Flower Taste Cooking Smell Focused Cleaning Texture Clean House

Author:Jerry Lynch

“The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated) or in the tapestry brocades and florals. The focus is on clean, strong silhouettes with bold embellishments. Accessories reflect the mood - belts with chain details, lace-up ghillie heels and muffs.”

Inspiration Strong Parent Focus Clean Details Mood Chains Subtle Heels Belts Texture Armor Woven Accessories Lace Tapestry Silhouettes Embellishment

Author:Tory Burch

“Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.”

Want Character Business Company Consequence Brands Acquire Branding Texture Public Trust

Book:Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Source: Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

“One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.”

Life Trying Ideas Real Life Is Values Individual Goal Style Color Substance Theme Texture Life Goal Touchstones Individual Life

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?”

Hate Taught Hair Skins Colour Texture Hating Yourself

Author:Malcolm X

“We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.”

Memories Hair Music Is Skins Texture Our Memories Great Music

Author:Abbey Lincoln

“The color, the shape, and the texture--none of it is accidental. Every item we wear has a glorious (or sometimes not so glorious) history, and that history extends back years--centuries, even--before Oscar de la Renta's 2002 collection.”

Years Sometimes Century Color Shapes Glorious Collections Oscars Items Texture

Book:Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet

Source: Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet

“Live a vital life. If you live well, you will earn well. If you live well, it will show in your face; it will show in the texture of your voice. There will be something unique and magical about you if you live well. It will infuse not only your personal life but also your business life. And it will give you a vitality nothing else can give.”

Ifs Giving Wells Shows Faces Voice Unique Your Face Good Life Personal Life Vitality Texture Live Well Life Well Lived Business Life Infusion

Author:Jim Rohn

“Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.”

Littles Said Courses Pieces Color Findings Texture Lighting Finding The One Nemo

Author:Joe Grant

“There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.”

Way Giving Character Certain Roles Authority Married Command Chains Ties Texture Cameos Chain Of Command

Author:Mark Goddard

“That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday.”

Everyday One Time Texture Latina

Author:Selena

“THE STORIES WE TELL fearlessly explores the textures of the human heart, finding a path toward hope through a Savannah that is jagged with class issues, faith misused, and broken trust. Henry loses you in a landscape peopled with secret keepers, storytellers and liars, and proves that in the end, love is the only reliable compass. This is everything you expect from Patti Callahan Henry—lyrical writing, characters worth rooting for, a sure-footed belief in the power of goodness—plus a twisty plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night.”

“If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Made Bits Water Little Bit Fats Ice Brands Substitutes Vegetables Cream Nasty Ice Cream Texture Supermarkets Helvetica

Author:Bruno Maag

“Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback.”

Humans Book Hands Tvs Fit Kissing Bigger Average Flexible Jackets Texture Seductive Human Hands

Book:Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

Source: Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

“Every Thanksgiving table should be blessed with the presence of a long-married pair who bring out the best in each other, are completely enamored despite their differences, and leave every other guest thinking, I’ll have what they’re having. Our holiday pies honor such so there’s a pleasant mix of textures and flavors in every bite. No matter how you slice partnerships, each spotlighting the perfect marriage of crust and filling these six irresistible desserts, there is a whole lot to love.”

“The whole background of 'Avian' is rain. I was just playing with textures and realizing you can touch music.”

Whole Realizing Rain Backgrounds Texture

Author:Mac Miller

“The photographer has almost as much control over his subject matter as a painter. He can control light and shade, form and space, pattern and texture, motion and mood, everything except composition.”

Matter Light Form Space Subjects Photographer Patterns Mood Painter Shade Composition Texture Subject Matter

Author:Andreas Feininger

“Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.”

“A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.”

“We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.”

Giving Able Left Water Behinds Rocks Changed Tales Conclusion Chemistry Mars Clue Left Behind Texture Liquid

Author:Steve Squyres

“The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.”

“A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.”

Writing Masters Authority Tone Bizarre Texture Fearlessness Flair

Author:Carlo Wolff

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