Quotes About Irregularity

#1. That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.

Henry Walter Bates

#3. The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.

Shaun Tan

#4. Remember that nothing will supply the want of prudence, and that negligence and irregularity long continued will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.

Samuel Johnson

#5. I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

Catherine Taylor

#6. Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from ... instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity without picturesqueness, and the grey sky, grey sea, grey houses, and grey roofs, look harmoniously dull.

Isabella Bird

#8. Evening has disappeared. It takes me a while to realize this.In the meantime,I'm getting medical attention. A doctor named Johanna has detected a possible irregularity which requires her to listen to my heartbeat. This requires me to take off my shirt.

Michael Grant

#9. The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#10. Irregularity is inherent in our very nature; expecting people to be perfectly wise is as crazy as putting wings on dogs or horns on eagles

Voltaire

#11. More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

Gertrude Stein

#12. Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

Joseph Addison

#13. The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Mary Leakey

#15. The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

Orville Wright

#16. All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.

Edwin A. Abbott

#17. Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.

Abdu'l- Baha

#18. And if Germans do have systematic minds, this is just as likely to be because their exceedingly erratic mother tongue has exhausted their brains' capacity to cope with any further irregularity

Guy Deutscher

#19. One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#20. There seemed to be some...irregularity in your coming here," the priest said delicately. Thus did he characterize her arrival, bruised and battered, in the arms of her betrothed rather than under the decorous escort of her family.

Josie Litton

#21. Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

Aleister Crowley

#22. Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#23. I went into designing my house thinking I could have some more expensive items because I didn't realize my kids were going to be animals.

Nicole Polizzi

#24. And on either side of the river was there a tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Yes,

Ray Bradbury

#25. Fights come from relationships with great passion in them

Melissa Walker

#26. The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

Baba Amte

#27. I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.

Al Jardine

#28. What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

Bo Burnham

#29. What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Rosa Parks

#30. But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies.

Norman Jewison

#31. All, from police forces to armed forces, are rigid hierarchies of salaried employees, and all are necessarily cumbered with incompetents who cannot do their existing work, cannot be promoted, yet cannot be removed.

Laurence J. Peter

#32. On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

Maria Monk