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“It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.”

Men World Women Men Women Texture

Book:Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

“Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.”

Art Imagination Color Art Is Texture

Author:Meghan Trainor

“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine - Unweave a rainbow.”

Philosophy Lines Air Mystery Mines Angel Empty Wings Philosopher Conquer Rainbow Texture Clip

Book:Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.”

Littles Real Moments Feelings Texture Little Moments

Author:Ralph Fiennes

“Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.”

Stills Character Light Courses Darkness Paint Landscape Dimensions Texture Light And Darkness Still Life

Author:John Hurt

“The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.”

Today Funny Humorous Western Japan Texture Junkie Smitten Condiments Mayonnaise Understated Kimonos

Author:Tom Robbins

“How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.”

Way Writing Children Together Sound Shapes Patterns Sentences Mysterious Fascinating Links Texture Paragraph Meanings Of Words

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.”

World Writing Looks Light Sound Five Media Smell Senses Weather Features Visuals Texture Good Writers Five Senses

Author:Janet Fitch

“I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.”

Writing Joy Satisfaction Rhythm Tone Texture

Book:Conversations with John Steinbeck

Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck

“Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.”

Should Information Humorous Ideals Should Have Journalism Texture Commentary Quirky Offbeat Broadcast Journalism

Author:Bob Costas

“I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.”

Feels Beautiful Song Voice Crazy Listening Majors Radio Feel Good Chords Texture Right Place Soothing Beautiful Voice

Author:Casey Abrams

“What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.”

Giving Use Enjoy Natural Greater Stage Instruments Texture Resonance

Author:John Cale

“Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.”

Years Kind Has Beens Happens Age Middle Tradition London Violent Middle Ages Texture Rioting

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.”

Feels Mind Philosophy Body Half Psychology Taste Rain Medicine Rounds Fishes Senses Bread Bows Grain Texture Petals Soma Embers

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.”