Parts Quotes - page 2

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. (Vitruvius)
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. View quote
Vitruvius
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth. View quote
Dave Barry
The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters. View quote
Robert Orben
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. View quote
René Descartes
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction, or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. View quote
Isaac Newton
Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need [...]. View quote
Paul
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette. (Minoru Yamasaki)
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on. View quote
Patrick Carman
Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket-not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space. View quote
Tadao Ando
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. View quote
Thom Mayne
Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them. View quote
Jessica Lange
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. View quote
Louis L'Amour
I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. (Amy Sedaris)
My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort. View quote
Adrian Belew
I'm just saying, it's got to be about something more than just body parts when you're with somebody. View quote
Brian Austin Green
May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do? View quote
Kristen Johnston
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. View quote
Robert Fortune