Tawdry Second Quotes & Sayings

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. The effect of a tawdry, unarranged, and over-decorated environment works for the deterioration of taste, just as meager and barren surroundings starve out the desire for beauty. Against such odds, conscious teaching can hardly do more than convey second-hand information as to what others think. Such taste never becomes spontaneous and personally engrained, but remains a labored reminder of what those think to whom one has been taught to look up. — John Dewey

Thank you," I whisper. "For everything. — Marie Lu

I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years. — Dan Bejar

Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras. — Frederick Lenz

Sysadmins don't take holidays — Cory Doctorow

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon

If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is. — Frederick Lenz

The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg's prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity. — Hilma Wolitzer

Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind. — Alfred Austin

You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave. — Neal Shusterman

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan. — Christopher Masterson