A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
Greg Lynn
ConstructionLookWoodPlasticBig
I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
DayNewKindPlasticKidsMinutes
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
Alanna Ubach
PeopleNewNeverFirstPlasticMade
E-readers are uninspired. They're slabs of plastic with fiddly controls and display a badly-formatted, typographically impoverished rendering of a paper book. That's not the electronic book I want. I want a gorgeous physical object, with paper pages, that can transform into any story I choose, perfectly presented on the page.
Nick Harkaway
BookStoryChoosePageWantPlastic
We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
Isaac Hanson
PlaceWantPlasticPlastic Surgery
I don't want to be known as a 'player.' I don't want to give plastic smiles on television and say 'No comments.'
Varun Dhawan
TelevisionSayWantSmilesPlastic
I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
Sally Phillips
GoodCarThinkYouLosePlastic
My characters are not plastic.
Karen Kingsbury
PlasticCharacters
The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
Dan Buettner
PeopleDietNothingPlasticMeat
If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.
John F. Kerry
MoneyFishToo MuchPlasticPlanet
I like that Brita makes tap water taste good, so you don't need to spend money or waste plastic with bottled water.
Stephen Curry
GoodWaterMoneyYouNeedPlastic
Richard Leacock and I ran into a guy who knew how to carve up a camera, and we had him carve one up for us. We had him chop it down and change the gears from metal to plastic, which would cut down on the sound it made when it was running.
Robert Drew
ChangeCameraDownSoundPlasticUp
I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.
Mary Meeker
BestMeApplePersonalPlasticBeen
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
Juan Goytisolo
ArchitectureSituationNowPlastic
I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
Cherie Lunghi
GenerationMadStopPlasticOut
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James
WalkingYoungWillBecomePlastic
I went off at a person who threw a plastic thing at one of my shows once. After I shamed them, I realised it was a little lipstick and felt bad for days.
Perfume Genius
BadLipstickPersonPlasticDays
It's hard to get everybody to recycle paper and plastic, let alone.
Richard Karn
AloneHardPlasticPaperGet
It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
Lili Taylor
SayWillNeverPlasticSurgery
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
Kevin Kelly
FireTreatLimitsPlasticHireAdd
I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more.
Jamie Lee Curtis
TimeEnoughBodyWrongMorePlastic
Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.
Eric Kandel
LearningPlasticCellsCommunicate
I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.
Busy Philipps
DressProjectKidPlasticOutMake
The low point for neon came in 1982, when Holiday Inn did away with its signature 'Great Sign,' replacing the neon extravaganza with a forgettable green plastic box.
Virginia Postrel
GreatGreenHolidayBoxPlasticLow
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