Top 454 Texture Quotes & Sayings

Anytime I see an unusual combination of colors or patterns or texture, I buy it.

I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture.

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.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

Superstitions add texture to life.

I regard texture similar to the function of taste buds in our mouths. But in a visual form. Texture does create a specific flavour which affects our senses.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour.

In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire." There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

I don't do a lot of editing post-shoot, but I use Lightroom to play with contrast and texture and to remove dust.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

I love playing with words and texture.

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

I happen to love coconut, particularly for that sweet and crunchy texture it adds to any dish.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

Texture and flavor is king.

I used to get perms to straighten my hair and change the texture.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.

When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.

We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.

When I do my own hair, I love Oribe Texture spray and Redken dry shampoo whenever I'm in a rush. It gives it texture and makes it look clean!

When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind

My food is about texture and technique.

I'm never afraid of pattern or texture.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow.

My natural hair texture is very kinky.

The more you mess with texture and colour, the worse your hair is going to feel.

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

The texture of experience is prior to everything else.

I'm a flutist so I know what they can deliver in terms of texture and sound and blurriness and softness. It's a very soft instrument.

How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

Time is the warp and matter the weft of the woven texture of beauty in space, and death is the hurling shuttle.

There are rules that are so blatantly broken on 'Contra,' like structures of harmony and texture.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Experienced no-limit Texas Hold'em players understand the importance of reading flop texture.

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

I actually prefer to hear small groups of instruments. Orchestras seem to lack a texture for me, or variety of texture. There's only about ten things you can do with one note in a string section. But a lone violin is continuously changing textures.

Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.

You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud.

Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.

I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

That one time I had ma Latina texture going on.. Or just.. everyday.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

Radio voices have a solid, even texture.

I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.

I know texture is really important, but I think texture and stuff precedes songwriting a lot of the time these days.

Frequently, I go straight into the studio and see what's around. I might hire a couple of instruments that I've never used - maybe a particular type of electronic organ or an echo unit. Then I just dabble with sounds until something starts to happen that suggests a texture. The texture suggests some kind of mood, and the mood suggests some kind of lyric. That's like working in reverse, often quite the other way around, from sound to song. Although often they stop before they get to the song stage.

Using open strings is a great way to add texture and atmosphere to any chord progression.

Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.

Shrimp and grits is a dish that I enjoy from North Carolina. It's one of those dishes that is so rich in flavor and texture.