Ductile Material Quotes & Sayings

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract. — Rafael Vinoly

Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward. — Wilkie Collins

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath. — Michael Chabon

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. — Kenneth Burke

The age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning ... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself. — Jean Baudrillard

My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read. — John Edgar Wideman

... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans. — Susan Merrill Squier

Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect. — Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving. — Adam Savage

Is he a terrible kisser?" Angela asked in a practical way.
"No," Kami said disconsolately. "He's a good kisser. He kisses like a minx. Like a minx on fire."
"That doesn't sound good." Angela looked at her, half amused and half concerned. — Sarah Rees Brennan

If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. — Philippa Gregory

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken. — Sendhil Mullainathan