Quotes About Texture

Sometimes she sat against the wall, longing for the warm finger of paint to wander just once more down the side of her nose, or to watch the sandpaper texture of her papa's hands. If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter and bread with only the scent of jam spread out on top of it. It was the best time of her life.

fact, you could say that Rosa Hubermann had a face decorated with constant fury. That was how the creases were made in the cardboard texture of her complexion.

Her face was pale and as wrinkled as a dhobi's thumb from being in water for too long.

Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.

Hugh stretched out one hand and stroked the fur. It felt cold and rich, it crackled with silky static electricity. Stroking it was like stroking a clear autumn night.

rubber-soled shoes squeaking on the shiny Marmoleum.

excuse my squeamishness about the gooey whites of soft-boiled eggs.

I love fresh-from-the-vine summer tomatoes almost more than any other food I can think of, and when I come home with a big haul from the farmers market, I'd like those tomatoes to be at peak flavor and texture for the whole week, until I can replenish them.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott; you'd swear that with his dazzling washes of blues and sand tones, he was inventing additional hues on the spot.

There is something wrong about cheese-flavoured crisps. I love the way Quavers melt on your tongue, they've got good structure, but I'm not into the flavour.

Panko crumbs have tons of surface area, leading to exceptionally crisp coatings.

I'm not big on fuzzy or fleecy slippers. I just don't like the texture and the heat. It just gets to be too much.

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

It was creamy," said Maya.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

When one writes the last apple on the tree, or the one small peach as pink as dawn, one is beginning to deal with particulars - to develop texture... Such texture is vital to all poetry. It is what makes the poem an experience, something much more than mere statement.

Moeller, who has tasted a naked Cheeto, likens it to a piece of unsweetened puffed corn cereal

cardboard displayed a water-color perspective of a gray granite

What Nabokov captured was the texture of life in a totalitarian society, where you are completely alone in an illusory world full of false promises, where you can no longer differentiate between your savior and your executioner.

felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God's flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks.