Waverley Root Quotes

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

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• Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Development
  • Artistic

• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Theater
  • Delight
  • Shock

• Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • Cute

• I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Like
  • Weather

• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • Real
  • Food
  • Care

• I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • World
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Good
  • President
  • Delight

• I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is - you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

  

  Nagwa Fouad
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • inspirational
  • Delight

• Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Expression
  • Delight
  • Spirituality

• It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • German
  • Principle
  • Nudity

• I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Nudity
  • Box Office

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Wisdom
  • Poem
  • Delight

• God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Giving
  • Needs

• For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Animals

• In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Artistic
  • Longing
  • Homesick

• The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

  

  Epictetus
  • Experience
  • Pleasure
  • Delight

• While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Beautiful
  • Church
  • Tradition

• Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wisdom
  • Beauty
  • Delight

• In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Cool

• Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Kind
  • King
  • Persons

• Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.

  

  Richard Widmark
  • Attention
  • Ability
  • Hood

• Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

  

  Waverley Root
  • Delight
  • Artistic
  • Nudity