Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Makeshifts. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Makeshifts Quotes And Sayings by 96 Authors including Paul Di Filippo,Maria V. Snyder,Anita Diamant,Kathy Valentine,Tawni O'dell for you to enjoy and share.
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
Sieges weathered.
brown paper bags from the pharmacist.
But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.
Oh, God," Shannon moans. "We have to boil water," I tell Kenny. "She wants Cup-a-Soup?" "No, it's to sterilize things." "What's that?" I start rummaging through my house looking for anything useful. I get a knife, scissors, salad tongs, clothespins, a bottle of whiskey. Kenny
The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses that the incontinent municipalities, Voorschoten and Leidschendam and Rijswijk and Zoetermeer, pooped over the rural spaces surrounding The Hague.
Impossible situations are our specialty.
Only he who is well prepared has any opportunity to improvise.
Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.
furnished, but by no means decorated,
The Gatlings at Santiago.
I work with things left over from other things.
Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.
A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.
rashers of bacon.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e; Armani underwear, Pink's shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed,
Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.
Literalists of the imagination
These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make a patchwork of green in odd corners of urban land, along train lines or canals or, as here, in the lee of the Wall.
Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.
There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
That's it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.
I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack.
real clothes. If anything, this guy is having a positive effect
JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
Ragweed,wild oat,vetch,butcher grass,invaginate volunteer beans,all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek ...
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.
Actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It's the personal lives that get messy. Dusk,
Still big-bellied with kits;
Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
I have a zombie apocalypse kit at my house. I've got freeze dried food, I've got a real deal medical kit, like, a doctor could perform a surgery with this medical kit. I got all kinds of everything.
Casual Italian loafers. One enterprising soul actually wore field-hockey shoes.
When you planned rough, you allowed room for improvisation.
Things unused burden and beset.
Elusive, spectacular, utterly at home, the fact of these British goshawks makes me happy. Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work. It
Custom! that skillful but unhurrying manager who begins by torturing the mind for weeks on end with her provisional arrangements; whom the mind, for all that, is fortunate in discovering, for without the help of custom it would never contrive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.
Sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santa's sleigh, not been ripped from the earth. The illusion enables us to imagine that the only choices we have are between brands.
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.
You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
Extremely dangerous drug-related occupations for which decoy served as a paid audition of sorts. A start weapons system was a wise investment. The
Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.
A wanton waste of projectiles.
they threw apples for
Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.
The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
How do you have an armed siege without guns?' 'She used Olympic standard archery equipment,
The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.
They are pretty good at improvising, but God help us if they are given time to think. Dean Atchison
Unthinkable clothing
liberally equipped with one-way pockets
A community of smashed up things and somehow everyone was willing to share the superglue
A weak invention of the Enemy.
Uh huh. Swag...Scientific Wild-Ass Guess
A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air force over there.
Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.
More of me comes out when I improvise.
The one I can't imagine anyone taking seriously, but was one of my favorites, was the mesh football jersey top, paired with a really short pair of athletic shorts.
I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.
We sleep in many tents,
Footballs, basketballs, mic<>rong>rorong>phones, gas and grass ...
Just some of the few things that J-Ro likes to pass.
Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.
If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
The bent but unbroken ones.
The precious ordinary. I
Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.
English dragoons
What are bashed neeps?"
"Neeps hackit with balmagowry.
What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.
elite squad that went after the tough cases with the relentless skill of a boar rooting in the mud for a truffle.
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.
I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from the '50s is really nice, hollowed out paper-mache food from old plays - the new stuff just looks too good.
I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.
Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards ... It's a magpie Christmas market.
Painted mafritty fritters frittering fitty fitty scented candelabra abra cadaver. Candle blah blah.
Survivors are willing to make sacrifices.
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
The Nac Mac Feegle (also called Pictsies, The Wee Free Men, The Little Men, and "Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed")
Transient guests are we.
When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
Plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.
Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.
Olivia imagined a D-day-style invasion of the island, gardeners with saws and shovels parachuting out of the sky and storming the beaches - and were being liberated from the thorny or flowery embrace of climbing vines, deratted, reroofed, fixed up, and condoized. Her apartment
What's got your jockstrap in a wad? (Abbie)
Cranberry Catsup
A Note Regarding Supplemental
What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.