Ananda K. Coomaraswamy quote: "We must not think of ornament as something added to an object which might have been ugly without it. The beauty of anything unadorned is not increased by ornament, but made more effective by it. ... It is only when the symbolic values of ornament have been lost, that decoration becomes a sophistry, irresponsible to the content of the work."

Wealth itself is not a bad idea provided it is directed towards public good. So is power. However, t...
ANANDA

I'm happy with fifteenth fastest, but I made a mistake on my last qualifying run, pushing too hard a...
ANANDA

Everything's just so awful, ... I don't know why God even invented the world if he was just going to...
ANANDA

In Asia, personal relationships are important, but you cannot personalise diplomacy.
ANANDA KRISHNAN

I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am...
ANANDA KRISHNAN

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K.

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY

Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY

The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
K. FLAY

When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y...
K. FLAY

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empower...
K. FLAY

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY

It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'...
K. FLAY

Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a ...
K. FLAY

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird imme...
K. FLAY

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even af...
K. FLAY

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be...
K. FLAY

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy ...
K. FLAY

Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.
K. O'HARA

There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about ...
K. FLAY

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. FLAY

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was ...
K. FLAY

Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
K. FLAY

I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in ...
K. FLAY

What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opport...
K. FLAY

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I re...
K. FLAY

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much ...
K. FLAY

My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K

when your child is born, you know that of all the lives you might have lived, only this one was ever...
K WILCOX

I'm done with temporary... I need permanence!
K. MARQUES

Remember This: People give advice, not to hurt you but, to keep you from getting hurt. They see thin...
K. MARQUES

If you aren't worth it to them, they shouldn't be worth it to you.
K. MARQUES

Big Love and More Light!
XxMwaaahhhhXx
K. LOVE

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.
K. TAYLOR

Never tread lightly. Leave a deep impression wherever you go.
K. RAFFERTY

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
RELIENT K

Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!
K. LAMB

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine...
RELIENT K

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you'r...
RELIENT K

Here comes the best part,” I say, realizing that I’ve spoken aloud the words I always tease Hadd...
K. BROMBERG

Without knowing anything else about him, i already know he'd be worth the hurt.
K. BROMBERG

The beauty of grace is that it makes like not fair.
RELIENT K

Love can hurt sometimes. Sometimes the things that make you happy can bring you sadness. But you hav...
CAITLYN K

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places,...
LIDIYA K.

Are you mad?” She breathes from behind me. I spin around to face her.
“What do you think?�...
K. LARS

Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes ...
K. WEBSTER

I’ve noticed that most of us don’t realize how important this moment is. They take it for grante...
LIDIYA K.

Making many mistakes
Doesn't make you a failure
It makes you become more successful
K-GIRL

We can't always be the bridge. Sometimes we have to be the flooding river.
K. WEIKEL

But, Leader, she is wrong -

"Maybe she is," Quill say and looks at Becca. Her heart poun...
K. WEIKEL

You wouldn't want to trade the eternal loop of your life for an infinite loop in the world of ideas,...
JOE K.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON

Saying everything is okay doesn't make you a grown-up.
K. WEIKEL

Are my own thoughts bad?
K. WEIKEL

We will no longer be outcasts - we will be rulers.
K. WEIKEL

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, s...
K. FLAY

This life we all receive is full of invisible boundaries and abstract values.
K. CONLEY

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.
K. WEIKEL

Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.
K. WEBSTER

Then, I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds. I want ...
K. WEBSTER

Violet makes me better,” I tell him, confidence in my tone. He smirks. “I can see that. I can se...
K. WEBSTER

It’s a penis not an introduction to the president.
K. WEBSTER

To achieve true beauty, you have to look within, before you change without.
K. RAFFERTY

In that case, which would be the lesser of two evils—terror cabin with a psycho or beach estate wi...
K. WEBSTER

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of thei...
K. FLAY

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school....
K. FLAY

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've s...
LOUIS C. K.

No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
JAMES K. POLK

Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true pa...
IAN K. SMITH

The most energetic and prompt measures and the immediate appearance in arms of a large and overpower...
JAMES K. POLK

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. ROWLING

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroa...
JAMES K. POLK

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need th...
LOUIS C. K.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of,...
JAMES K. POLK

I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was gett...
J. K. SIMMONS

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling int...
JAMES K. POLK

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. ROWLING

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. ROWLING

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wis...
J. K. ROWLING

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. ROWLING

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. ROWLING

Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
IAN K. SMITH

People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite:...
IAN K. SMITH

I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
IAN K. SMITH

The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have thos...
IAN K. SMITH

Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying...
IAN K. SMITH

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
IAN K. SMITH

A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues suc...
IAN K. SMITH

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in...
IAN K. SMITH

The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of...
IAN K. SMITH

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small...
IAN K. SMITH

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
IAN K. SMITH

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid mole...
K. ERIC DREXLER

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will...
K. ERIC DREXLER

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on...
K. ERIC DREXLER

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a fact...
K. ERIC DREXLER

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, ...
K. ERIC DREXLER

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessari...
K. ERIC DREXLER

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atom...
K. ERIC DREXLER

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportat...
K. ERIC DREXLER

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per...
K. ERIC DREXLER

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with,...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Any powerful technology can be abused.
K. ERIC DREXLER

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made ...
K. ERIC DREXLER

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build m...
K. ERIC DREXLER

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive critic...
K. ERIC DREXLER

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including...
K. ERIC DREXLER

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that w...
K. ERIC DREXLER

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, w...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of r...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our abili...
K. ERIC DREXLER

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't ...
K. D. LANG

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's...
K. D. LANG

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
K. D. LANG

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. Yo...
K. D. LANG

My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. LANG

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing th...
K. D. LANG

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have jus...
K. D. LANG

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I alway...
K. D. LANG

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego ...
K. D. LANG

If you knew how meat was made, you'd probably lose your lunch.
K. D. LANG

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
K. D. LANG

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
K. D. LANG

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.
K. D. LANG

It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape y...
K. D. LANG

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so...
K. D. LANG

I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too...
K. D. LANG

When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a...
K. D. LANG

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
K. D. LANG

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
K. D. LANG

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of...
K. D. LANG

I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voic...
K. D. LANG

Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it&#...
K. D. LANG

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the p...
K. D. LANG

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to y...
K. D. LANG

Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally...
K. A. PAUL

Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it th...
K. A. PAUL

I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran bur...
K. A. PAUL

I live in a high-rise apartment building, so I just have two cats. They're both pound kitties. O...
K. A. APPLEGATE

What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity t...
K. A. APPLEGATE

It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so ma...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it m...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnera...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the ques...
K. A. APPLEGATE

Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentl...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
K. A. APPLEGATE

When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
K. A. APPLEGATE

One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine l...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a publi...
K. A. APPLEGATE

At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. ...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the sympho...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin roma...
K. A. APPLEGATE

Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawin...
K. A. APPLEGATE

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is...
K. A. APPLEGATE

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. APPLEGATE

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show.....
K. A. APPLEGATE

As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. APPLEGATE

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. APPLEGATE

I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. APPLEGATE

I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When anim...
K. A. APPLEGATE

Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to...
LOUIS C. K.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ...
J. K. ROWLING

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. ROWLING

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. ROWLING

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. ROWLING

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. ROWLING

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understandin...
J. K. ROWLING

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN

Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
N. K. JEMISIN

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can b...
N. K. JEMISIN

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic,...
N. K. JEMISIN

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are st...
N. K. JEMISIN

I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my liv...
J. K. SIMMONS

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

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