Exterior Quotes - Page 9

• I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Moving, World, Want

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• . . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

  Mary Martha Sherwood

  Dirty, Enemy, Description

  Mary Martha Sherwood (1844). “The History of John Marten: A Sequel to The Life of Henry Milner”, p.180

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• The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Psychological, Process, Results

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• Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope.

  Jenny Diski

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Believe, Fall, Men

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• In country, as in people, a plain exterior often conceals
  hidden riches, to perceive which requires much living in and with.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, People, Riches

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.30, Oxford University Press

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

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• To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Ambition, Desire, Purpose

  Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You cannot paint the exterior of your house. You have to take the paint chip down to show the paint-chip Nazis.

  Dave Barry

  House, Nazi, Paint

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December 1, 1994.

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• You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The Croods was no doubt the building of the world. Every single thing in this film is organic. Organic things are tough. Very very labour intensive. And we have no man-made structures. You could argue that everything in this film is really an exterior. Even the interiors of the cave are exteriors. So building this world was the biggest thing of all, and the technology was there to do it.

  Chris Sanders

  Technology, Men, Doubt

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Responsibility, Matter, Today

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• What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Essence

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• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  Vernon Howard

  Freedom, Kingdoms, Realizing

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• The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I'm actually just a hippie at heart.

  Erin Wasson

  Hippie, Heart, People

  Interview with Sabine Heller, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2009.

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