#sterile

I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#come #danger #i #i think #made

The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff. ↗

— Jonathan Katz

#billboards #created #discordant #environment #jarring

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it's a product of an assembly line. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#assembly-line #dejan-stojanovic #final #literature #literature-quotes

And, as if nature were protecting man against his own ingenuity, the reproductive processes were affected for a time; men became sterile, women had miscarriages, menstruation stopped. ↗

— John Hersey

#against #became #had #his #ingenuity

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#branches #cracking #existence #me #sterile

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#even #go #just #know #many

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#god #hell #menacing #messiah #need

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#becomes #begins #between #death #emotion

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#came #dull #first #here #i

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#assign #dare #function #imitating #nature