Teppich Ikea Quotes & Sayings

The physical thing in itself is not independently beautiful. Its beauty is made to shine through the elegance of its form: 'In visible things . . . the beautiful thing is essentially symmetrical, patterned. Symmetry itself owes its beauty to a remoter principle.' The force of invisible beauty infuses the visible object. This is the reason for ugliness: 'An ugly thing is something that has not been mastered by pattern.' For — John O'Donohue

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert. — John F. Kerry

My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother. — Dick Van Patten

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place. — Calvin Trillin

The Colonel had wanted a general in the family. Hannah would make a great general. Or dictator. — Melinda Leigh

I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans. — Sam Heughan

I'll settle for successful during my lifetime because at least I can be conscious of the delusion that it means something. — Claire Cameron

Minds, like diapers, need occasional changing. — Karen Cushman

As he strode through the deserted city, he thought of the New Years of his childhood, before he was ten, before the Change, when the city had still glowed with the soft, deep enchantment of sugared angels spreading their sparkling wings in bakery windows, and bells whose limpid sounds rose like the sea at a moonlit tide, and glass ornaments turning slowly this way and that on dark tree branches, gathering in their reflections the whole wondrous, promise-filled world. — Olga Grushin