Frieze Quotes

#1. Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

Duane Michals

#2. In harmony there is nothing strange. And life is a vast harmony. I've understood this. But, you see- the moulded whimsy of a frieze on a portico keeps us from recognizing, sometimes, the symmetry of the whole ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind, women walking on a temple frieze, Greek women in fluttering robes rounding a vase's girth for ever.

Enid Bagnold

#4. These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

Jerry A. Coyne

#5. Don't think about your past alone but about your future with me.
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Chiki101

#6. If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

John Milton

#7. A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.

Jordan Dane

#8. The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.

Yehuda Levi

#9. It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

Edvard Munch

#10. By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Edvard Munch

#11. I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

Tina Turner

#12. They were full of mysteries and secrets, like ... like poems turned into landscapes."
"'Poems turned into landscapes.'" he murmured with a slight smile. "And what of Vestenveld's gardens? Do you see poems in them?"
"Your gardens are like your country's poetry. Very frilly and organized.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#13. Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements....

Deyth Banger

#14. Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in my ears, making my skin prickle and crawl as tides of sickness wash me away.

Sarah Miller

#15. The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

Libba Bray

#16. All hail the light, the dark, and the grey.

Chuck Wendig

#17. I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Edvard Munch