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#ornament

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #ornament




Silence is an ornament for women.


Sophocles


#silence #women

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.


Alanis Morissette


#i #i see #instrument #ornament #rather

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.


Alanis Morissette


#being #better #better way #body #differently

Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, you know, instead of the stark, bare ugliness we have now. Well, why don't you like the idea? Because it would be useless and pointless. Because the beauty of the human body is that is hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.


Ayn Rand


#form #function #human-body #humans #ornamentation

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.


Edmund Burke


#civil #graceful #nobility #order #ornament

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.


Luc de Clapiers


#ornaments #profound #thoughts

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.


Gustav Stickley


#bare #beauty #charm #clearly #curves

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.


Mahatma Gandhi


#her #ornament #purity #real #woman

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.


Munshi Premchand


#bear #need #ornaments #softness #weight

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?


John Ruskin


#ask #believe #carver #done #enjoyment






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