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Quotes About Decoration

We would do the same if we had colonies Franz told himself (it was a sore subject of course), but somehow Franz was aware that if a German youth had accomplished anything so spectacular he would enjoy the ensuing "fuss." He would be fated and acclaimed, and would strut about in uniform with his decoration pinned to his breast for all the world to see.
~ D.E. Stevenson
We have made you [Priapus] of marble for the time being.
~ Virgil
The Plains Indians decorated their moccasins with not less than three different colors of quills. Their favorites were yellow, red, green and purple. Beaded moccasins had a larger range of colors, the average being four or five, and the preference was white, red, green, yellow and blue. The background color, almost exclusively, was white, although the Assiniboin tribe used blue for the background color.
~ Unknown
And we are introduced to Goodness every day, Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults; He has a name like Billy and is almost perfect, But wears a stammer like a decoration.
~ W. H. Auden
On the top rack is a cooled and decorated seven-layered 'opera' cake. Her client- the Peruvian ambassador- had requested a tropical theme for a dinner party dessert. Avis had based the decoration on the view through the kitchen window, re-creating in lime, lemongrass, and mint frostings the curling backyard flora, curving foliage shaped like tongues and hearts, fat spines bisecting the leaves.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
~ A. S. Byatt
Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends.
~ Bing Gordon
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
~ Louis Sullivan
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.
~ John Bright
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
~ Albert Hadley
Content informs design; design without content is decoration.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
Love is all that matters, All else is decoration.
~ Jack McDevitt
covered with gold braid. Mary Lou saw
~ Unknown
I am God's creation, My parents' decoration, The youth of the nation, Empowered by my friends motivation... And I'm proud of being me.
~ Unknown
The glorification of the 'woman's role, then, seems to be in proportion to society's reluctance to treat women as complete human beings; for the less real function that role has, the more it is decorated with meaningless details to conceal its empt.
~ Betty Friedan
Now it was the Germans who had to fall back to new defensive positions. Among the German soldiers who had fought throughout the retreat was Corporal Hitler. On August 4 he was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, for 'personal bravery and general merit'. This was an unusual decoration for a corporal. Hitler wore it for the rest of his life. The regimental adjutant who recommended him for it, Captain Hugo Guttman, was a Jew.
~ Martin Gilbert
Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.
~ Martin H. Fischer
Mistletoe was her new favorite holiday decoration. She would have to hang some in the kitchen. All over the house. And keep the green stuff hanging until Easter. Or Thanksgiving.
~ Unknown
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
~ Unknown
It is not that artistic power has left the world but that a more rapid life has developed itself in it, leaving no time for deliberate dainty decoration or labours of love.
~ Unknown
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.
~ Nora Roberts
Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration differs from that of the Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere. In Western houses we are often confronted with what appears to us useless reiteration. We find it trying to talk to a man while his full-length portrait stares at us from behind his back. We wonder which is real, he of the picture or he who talks, and feel a curious conviction that one of them must be fraud.
~ Okakura Kakuz?
On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book. Plus, this award was a plaque of some sort. I could have used that for all sorts of things. Obviously it would be useful for decorating the barren walls of my house and intimidating my enemies, but that's just for starters.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Another difference," Rob said. "What?" "There's no color on anything they build, no finish or decoration. All the external material is raw." "They're color blind as well." "And immune to esthetics?" "Okay, then. You tell me." "I don't know why, I'm just pointing it out. Their culture has no art." "Have you seen the crap flooding the unisphere these days?
~ Peter F. Hamilton