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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way. Charles Jencks

Beautiful Experience People Perception Beauty Other Way Objects Various Point Between Particular Cheekbones Particular Way Parts Makes Singular Up Sensations Experienced Converge Chin Them

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame. Cherie Blair

Women Society Tools Worse Financially All Women Seeing Give Objects Both Shame Support Empower Families Pity Them Themselves Even Even Worse Assets Socially Start Need

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. Christian Nestell Bovee

Our Objects Morbid More Only Allied Tender Excessive Self-Consciousness Name Make Another Selves Cure Closely Egotism Sensibilities Sensibility Less

What sets 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' apart is Riggs's use of 'found' photographs as a spark of inspiration for the narrative. 'Found' describes art created from common objects that are not normally considered art. Claire Cameron

Art Home Sets Considered Photographs Objects Inspiration Miss Narrative Normally Common Children Apart Spark Created Use Found Peculiar

Being a sculptor who uses found objects, all the objects I use in my work have been designed by other people. So I'm tweaking them in some way by squashing them or throwing them off cliffs! Then I formalise my damage by suspending them or arranging them in some kind of way. So I'm using other people's design in a way, so I'm an 'un-maker.' Cornelia Parker

Work People Design Other Way Kind Some Objects Throwing Cliffs Arranging Been Off Being Them Then Sculptor Use Who Tweaking Uses Using Found Designed Damage

My home is different from my mother's, because hers is filled with beautiful objects that I was always afraid of breaking. My home is the opposite. Bring on the kids, the dogs, the parties - there's nothing that's so important it can't be broken. Cybill Shepherd

Beautiful Home Broken Mother Important Nothing Hers Kids Objects Parties Because Always Dogs Opposite Afraid Different Breaking Filled Bring

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see. Dan Colen

Spiritual Think Eye See Objects Like Beyond Powers Energies

If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve. Dan Phillips

You People Dinner Design Unity Say Possibility Would Easy Nerve Similar Objects Put Come Most Also Pile Repetition Up Just Anybody Want Anyone Anything Pattern Available Room Creates Fun

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in. Dasha Zhukova

Love You Live Design Out Collector Seek Objects Also Devoted

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. Dave Barry

Accidents Percent Objects Factor Involving Falling Contributing Nearly Gravity

Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production. David Fanning

Strength You Accidents Fall Research Fragments Interview Nine Nine Months Months Collected Collection Objects Footage Pieces Documentary Course Surface Stock Six Happenstance Movies Scripts Production Stand Large Found Extent

In the lab, we could not see or physically describe the mathematical objects that we called quarks, which we suspected were the key to unlocking the dynamics of the strong force that binds together the clump of protons and neutrons at the center of the atom. David Gross

Together Key Strong Unlocking See Atom Objects Physically Could Force Were Mathematical Lab Suspected Center Dynamics Which Describe Binds

I don't fall in love with inanimate objects. I don't bond with them. I only fall in love with people. David L. Wolper

Love People Fall Objects Only Them Inanimate Bond

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. David Ricardo

Alone Country Those One Country Bestow Objects Part Almost Goods Obtain Limit Without Greatest Labour Any May Which Them Procured Far Many Necessary Desire

I hate ladders. I don't mind heights, but I hate getting hit with ladders and falling into ladders. Anything where there are ladders involved or inanimate, unpredictable objects or multiple people gets dangerous. Dean Ambrose

Hate People Dangerous Mind Heights Unpredictable Objects Involved Falling Hit Gets Getting Ladders Where Anything Inanimate Multiple

Ever since Marcel Duchamp appropriated mass market objects and pronounced them 'readymades' and Andy Warhol elevated the Campbell's soup can and Brillo Box to art, artists and designers have been blurring the lines between fine art and commerce. Debbie Millman

Art Market Andy Andy Warhol Fine Fine Art Objects Between Mass Since Mass Market Box Duchamp Soup Been Lines Campbell Commerce Artists Warhol Them Ever Marcel Elevated Designers

I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect. Debi Mazar

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty. Diane Kruger

Beauty Sexuality Objects Directors Leading Idealize Lot Ladies Them Turn

Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance. Don Kardong

Creativity Whatever Speed Other Trees Mark Seconds Distance Distances Telephone Run Runners Running Objects Vary Poles Make Match Buildings Off Different Pace Length Modify Choices Your Choose Play

I'll get boxes full of books and objects from perfect strangers in the oddest places. Teachers will send me students' drawings, etc. It's hard to sift through it all. Donald Baechler

Me Will Strangers Books Sift Drawings Objects Perfect Through Students Boxes Get Send Etc Places Full Teachers Hard

Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off. Douglas Rushkoff

Own Show Off Harry Physical Objects Adoration Because Limited Lines Off Sells Hold Pace China Show Assembly Apple

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