Deformation Quotes

#1. In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Fernando Botero

#2. A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.

Merab Mamardashvili

#3. And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

Richard Tarnas

#4. It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Fashion is the opposite of the real, its worst enemy. Fashion photography is subversive; it makes you believe everything is true, whereas this could not be more false. It is the opposite of a mirror, a deformation.

Patrick Demarchelier

#6. My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special 'cry'. 'It's due to deformation of the crystal structure,' she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - and yet her words fascinated me, made me want to know more.

Oliver Sacks

#7. There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

Samuel Beckett

#8. We are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it:

Haruki Murakami

#9. You won't be liberated from deformation by new information. God doesn't deliver us from the deformative habit-forming power of tactile rival liturgies by merely giving us a book. Instead,

James K.A. Smith

#10. Section) undergo opposite senses of deformation. An alloy with a higher modulus of elasticity has greater stiffness or rigidity for elastic deformation. For

Anonymous

#11. I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

Bernie Mac

#12. And when you smile it can be very charming - the kind of charm a smart woman recognizes as highly dangerous.

Nora Roberts

#13. Who wins? The Americans or the Russians?" "Both," his father said, glancing to the frost-filled windowpane. "Then who loses?" "Everyone else.

Anthony Marra

#14. Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

Samuel Beckett

#15. If your right hand was lame, wouldn't your left miss its mate? You might get along without it, but you'd always be aware that something was missing. That's natural, not weak.

Elizabeth Hunter

#16. Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We sound the depths of Hell very often in this life.

Matthew Pearl

#17. We are embarking on the biggest project in human civilisation," he said. "We must ensure that the United States ... is part of such post-2012 arrangements.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#18. The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.

August Spies

#19. I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

Emmitt Smith

#20. It was her personal view that people who are overly choosy about the drinks they order in a bar tend to be sexually bland. She had no idea why this should be so.

Haruki Murakami

#21. If you happen to be out at night on the bike path without a light, ring your bell constantly. No bell? Then sing "Hotel Yorba" on a continuous loop, loud enough to warn the unseen.

Grant Petersen

#22. I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'

Ron Rash