Excrescences Quotes

#1. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities.

Edward Weston

#2. He was going to show that the paradoxes were not excrescences; they were fundamental.

James Gleick

#3. At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

John Donne

#4. I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky floats about them; the feeling that one's taxis, and shopping, all go on in the deep canyon-beds of natural erosions rather than in the excrescences of human builders.

Freya Stark

#5. Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

E. M. Forster

#6. burglars are idiot masters of the built environment, drunk Jedis of architectural space.

Geoff Manaugh

#7. It was not, after all, so easy to die.

J.K. Rowling

#8. We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

John Berger

#9. Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

Tom DeMarco

#10. True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there.-Kyoko

Natsuki Takaya

#11. After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

Mason Cooley

#12. I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

Anne Bronte

#13. FIRST WATCHER Why do people die?
SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough ...

Fernando Pessoa

#14. I was never into makeup when I was younger, and I still love not piling on the makeup every day, but as I've gotten older I've actually found makeup to be fun.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#15. apocalyptic statuary of the post-Hegira expansionist period. I

Dan Simmons

#16. There's that effect that is very physical, very down there at the synaptic level, which really means microscopic cellular level, but also molecular level, because all of those structures are operating on an electrochemical basis and so the changes there are very important.

Antonio Damasio

#17. I'm going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!

Benjamin R. Smith