#gloss

A gloss is a total system of perception and language. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#language #perception #system #total

To me, natural, healthy looking skin is really beautiful. With a little concealer, eyeshadow, liner, gloss and bronzer, I love my lighter makeup look. I've saved so much money on facials! ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#gloss #healthy #i #i love #lighter

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows. ↗

— Martin Short

#actor #being #character #character actor #eyebrows

She's trapped me on the front side of the counter. Way. Too. Close. To. Her. LIP-GLOSS. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#crush #gray #lipgloss #love #love

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#aspects #comfortable #compliance #dissent #encourage

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it ↗

— Robert Musil

#change

Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#life

For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch needs a watchmaker, just as a world needs a world-maker—God. Yet both Wallace and Paley might have heeded the lesson from Voltaire's Candide (1759), in which Dr. Pangloss, a professor of "metaphysico-theology-cosmolonigology," through reason, logic, and analogy "proved" that this is the best of all possible worlds: '"Tis demonstrated that things cannot be otherwise; for, since everything is made for an end, everything is necessarily for the best end. Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches" (1985, p. 238). The absurdity of this argument was intended on the part of the author, for Voltaire firmly rejected the Panglossian paradigm that all is best in the best of all possible worlds. Nature is not perfectly designed, nor is this the best of all possible worlds. It is simply the world we have, quirky, contingent, and flawed as it may be. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#logic #pangloss #design