[A] smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear.
Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.
Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past. from the book 'I Know Who You Are!
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars." "Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments.
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.
It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
