Quotes About Repurposing

#1. We have a bubbling successful melting pot in this country so long as the ingredients are essentially European.

Jared Taylor

#2. And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne'er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

Mary Howitt

#3. The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.

Susie Dent

#4. I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

William Gibson

#5. He had big hands, strong hands. My entire hand had fit easily in his palm, his fingers easily closing around mine.

Jasinda Wilder

#6. It's not plagiarism in the digital age
it's repurposing.

Kenneth Goldsmith

#7. Today, I'm drawn to repurposing for so many reasons: It allows me to live a more financially pared-down and simple life in which it's possible to work a little bit less and live a little bit more.

Amanda Blake Soule

#8. The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Richard Dawkins

#9. I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

Tim Fargo

#10. If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney

#11. Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker culture - that we tend to imagine its superficial aspects are all that define it.

Paul Di Filippo

#12. Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.

Nate Berkus

#13. Memory fans out from imagination, and vice versa, and why not. Memory isn't a well but an offshoot. It goes secretly. Comes apart. Deceives. It's guilty of repurposing the meaning of deep meaning and poking fun at what you've emotionalized. And

Durga Chew-Bose

#14. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#15. Hope radiates outward from the center of our concerns. Hope dares us to stare the miraculous in the eye and have the courage not to look away.

Terry Tempest Williams

#16. It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

Barry Commoner

#17. Men always like to blame women for everything that goes wrong. Look at Adam and Eve.

Anne Fortier

#18. The gift blesses the giver.

Hilary Mantel

#19. The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

David Halberstam

#20. There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every culture, but the universal fact of this persistence must mean that no adequate therapy exists.

Patrick David Wall