Decoration Quotes - Page 2

• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Waste, Melancholy

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

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• There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.

  Pippa Middleton

  Summer, Real, Party

  "Pippa Middleton's Book On Partying Is Not Very Good" by Christopher Howse, www.businessinsider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

  Peter Behrens

  Character, Technology, Creating

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• El Día de la Condecoración es la más hermosa de nuestras fiestas nacionales.... Los lúgubres cañones se han convertido en ramas de palmera, y los proyectiles y la metralla en flores de melocotonero.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Hermoso, edificante, Día de los Caídos

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

  Joseph Addison

  Design, Attention, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.16

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• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Men, Green

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

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• Practica el diseño, no la decoración: No te limites a hacer bonitos temas de conversación. En lugar de eso, muestra la información de forma que quede clara la información compleja.

  Nancy Duarte

  Talking, Practice, Design

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• You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wall, Mean, Redneck

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• Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

  Benjamin Carson

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Me obsesiono con los adornos y la decoración de la casa. Lo hago con buen gusto por fuera, pero cuando entras es un poco como las iluminaciones de Blackpool, ¡me vuelvo loca!

  Johnny Vegas

  Illumination, House, Obsessed

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• Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.

  Robert Musil

  Clothes, Tangled, Quality

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• ...siempre me ha parecido que los libros son la decoración suprema de una habitación...

  Patrick O'Brian

  Book, Rooms, Supreme

  Patrick O'Brian (1952). “Testimonies”

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  El verdadero cambio en la moda proviene de cambios reales en la vida real. Todo lo demás es mera decoración.

  Tom Ford

  Life, Change, Fashion

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• No llevamos lentejuelas porque pensemos que somos geniales. Las llevamos porque creemos que las lentejuelas son geniales.

  Gram Parsons

  Thinking, Style, Embellishment

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• Pero, al fin y al cabo, el objetivo del arte es crear espacio, un espacio que no se vea comprometido por la decoración o la ilustración, un espacio en el que puedan vivir los temas de la pintura.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Illustration, Space

  Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• Preferiría tener una habitación confortable y bien provista de libros a todo lo que pudieras darme de decoración que el arte más elevado pudiera proporcionarme.

  John Bright

  Art, Book, Giving

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• If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

  Edith Wharton

  May, Architecture, Sanity

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Action, Emotion

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• Sin embargo, vio que en todos los lugares había originalidad, fruto de los esfuerzos humanos de decoración y de los ingeniosos métodos de supervivencia.

  Michael O'Brien

  Effort, Survival, Saws

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• It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Relaxation, Desire

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• ¡Me encanta la Navidad! No soy religiosa, pero me encantan los adornos navideños. Me encantan las decoraciones, la música, Papá Noel, la comida festiva y los aromas de canela y vainilla.

  Jane Cleland

  Religious, Christmas Love, Santa

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• It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

  A. B. Simpson

  Enough, Crosses

  A. B. Simpson (2010). “The Cross of Christ: His Sufferings and Their Impact on the Believer”, p.23, Moody Publishers

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• Sólo me gusta la decoración si juega un papel secundario en la arquitectura de un vestido.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Play, Dresses, Architecture

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