Top 38 Self Decoration Quotes
#1. I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#3. I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.
Tyne Daly
#4. Mistletoe was her new favorite holiday decoration. She would have to hang some in the kitchen. All over the house. And keep the green stuff hanging until Easter. Or Thanksgiving.
Melissa McClone
#5. The heavy round face was looking at him, the hard look of a man who had also understood, who had seen all the stupidity, who knew, after all, that the gold stars were often mindless decoration, that the army was led not by symbols, but by the fallible egos and blind fantasies of men.
Jeff Shaara
#6. As they walked, it seemed almost every building had some similar contrivance as decoration, adorning the street in a cacophony of clangs, bangs and whirs. The street's surroundings danced with steam and smoke, the scent of oil and grease its perfume.
A.F. Stewart
#7. Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.
Carl Zimmer
#8. Normally the only decoration in there was on Sham Harga's vest and the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone. Now
Terry Pratchett
#9. Laws change so often it seems pointless to keep track of the fiddly ones. 'Don't kill' is the big one. Everything else is moral decoration.
T.W. Brown
#10. Music is nothing more than decoration for the imagination. That
Elizabeth Gilbert
#11. Details, when they are successful, are not mere decoration. They do not distract or entertain. They lead to an understanding of the whole of which they are an inherent part.
Peter Zumthor
#12. If you're opening a hot dog stand, you could worry about the condiments, the cart, the name, the decoration. But the first thing you should worry aout is the hot dog. The hot dogs are the epicenter. Everything else is secondary.
Jason Fried
#13. I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!
Wayne Shorter
#14. I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'
Suzy Menkes
#15. For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole has not been invented.
Joseph Gies
#16. Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
Michael D. O'Brien
#17. The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.
Neville Weston
#18. Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.
William Zinsser
#19. And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I'm still all man. I'm just a man with decoration, Tommy had explained before turning with a flounce and practically floating out of the room in his heels.
Vicktor Alexander
#20. A thought provoking number of the world's most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate and invisible matters instead.
Alain De Botton
#21. Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
Henri Nouwen
#22. Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.
Ismail Haniyeh
#23. Up to 700 A.D., it was assumed that the Christian family cared for their own dead. The clergy played little role in burial and none whatsoever in the arrangement and decoration of tombs.
Peter R.L. Brown
#24. I like to photograph miniature constructed scenes - I'll buy a very sad cake decoration like a plastic computer for a dreary office birthday party and construct a wildly colorful scene to put on its screen, or do a series of dollhouse chairs frozen in ice cubes.
Matthea Harvey
#25. Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.
Stephanie Kallos
#26. I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.
Bill Laswell
#27. Content informs design; design without content is decoration.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#28. The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
James Ensor
#29. I'm just not very interested in decoration.
Phoebe Philo
#30. Wallpaper. Decoration. Her whole life and person, whittled down to nothing. "I don't accept that ," Etta said. I'm neither of those things. And, for the record, neither are you.
Alexandra Bracken
#32. Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
Mark Twain
#33. Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
Ettore Sottsass
#35. Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content.
Edward R. Tufte
#36. The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
Edith Wharton
#37. What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.
Rebecca West
#38. Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration - poetry, novels, music, dancing - if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.
Ben Fountain
