Interiors Quotes - Page 6

• Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Energy, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

  Marc Chagall

  Reality, Serenity, World

  Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

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• The only way to achieve something in the interior world is let-go - a kind of effortlessness, a relaxation. It is not a doing; it is nondoing. It is not action; it is inaction. And it seems difficult because everybody from the very beginning is told, `Do something; don`t just go on sitting there! Something is always better than nothing.` In the inner world these are not the laws. Nothing is better than everything.

  Rajneesh

  Letting Go, Law, Relaxation

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• The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Vanity, Want, Clients

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• Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

  Rick Owens

  Fashion, Book, Pockets

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• Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being.

  Thomas Berry

  Integrity, Self, Order

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• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?

  Anne Bancroft

  Heart, Journey, Fiber

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• In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Writing, Sound, Divorced

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• For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Children, Book

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• In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Vacation

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• Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in the bosom of the heavenly Father, where you will be reborn each moment in the Divine Word, Jesus Christ.

  Paul of the Cross

  Faith, Baby, Jesus

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• But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... It would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.

  Jim DeMint

  Moving, Years, Environmental

  "Senator Jim DeMint on Offshore Drilling". "Your World With Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2008.

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• You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Dog, Horse, Children

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• You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

  Joseph Conrad

  Integrity, Adventure, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): A Classic Novel of Guilt and Atonement From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent & Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.302, e-artnow

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• To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.

  James Madison

  Mean, Government, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.238

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• It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth is too thick, in comparison with human strength; and especially because of the intermediate waters, which would gush forth with greater impetus, the deeper the place in which their veins were first opened; and which would drown all miners.

  Rene Descartes

  Perseverance, Science, Water

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• The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Book, Reading

  "One-Way Street".

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• I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

  Ursula Andress

  Home, Design, Wanted

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• Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Taken, Ideas

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.141, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Self, Empathy, Desire

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• To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments, statements or declarations. True listeners no longer have an inner need to make their presence known. They are free to receive, welcome, to accept.

  Henri Nouwen

  Listening, Needs, Speech

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• Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Rocks, Wish

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• I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

  Dale Chihuly

  Artist, Names, Half

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