Charles Jencks Quotes

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Charles Jencks

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BeautyBeautifulExperiencePeople

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Jim Gaffigan

FunnyChallengeFunThinkSomething

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

John Burroughs

ImaginationTreatFactsImagineYour

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

Jennifer Hale

CharacterGiftOverYearsStayAble

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

John Milius

GreatPeoplePaintingWritingLearn

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

Michael Berryman

PeopleDoingSituationBurnStrange

My siblings are my best friends.

America Ferrera

BestFriends

Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

Mike Epps

StrugglePeopleBlackFriendsActing

No one can avoid death; it is inevitable. Therefore, I should create in my mind a kind of willingness and accepting for that event without any fear.

Lobsang Tenzin

FearDeathMindCreateInevitable

Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.

Jason Calacanis

TechnologyDemocracyAmericanYou

When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'

Drew Barrymore

RespectGreatMeThinkNameAdvice

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Colin Powell

WrongRightAlwaysCommanderField

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth.

William Lloyd Garrison

SurviveFreeChurchHumanityHeaven

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