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Enclose Quotes

Thoughtful lines on boundaries, space, and design

These enclose quotes recall how difficult it was to enclose people in institutions where suffering stayed largely out of back-room sight, especially across a country as vast as India.

You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to...

Quotes by Spike Milligan

I am able to take a wire line and go into the air and define the air without stealing from anyone. A line can enclose and define space while letting the air remain air.

Quotes by Ruth Asawa

I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.

Quotes by Raymond Loewy

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

Quotes by Peter Kropotkin

Able Quotes

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Quotes by Paul Cezanne

I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back...

Quotes by Jeffrey Donovan

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Quotes by Helen Rowland

When people put labels on us, it doesn't always enclose everything that we are. So even though I'm proud to be Somali, I'm proud to be American, at the end of the day, I'm still Halima, and I take things...

Quotes by Halima Aden

Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washington, D.C., and return to Indiana. I see the bizarre bubble that seems to enclose the Beltway and makes people forget what regular people...

Quotes by Evan Bayh

Frequently Asked Questions

What does enclose mean across these quotes?
It ranges from institutionally enclosing people to physically enclosing property or a machine through design.
Is there a quote about institutions?
Yes, one notes how difficult it was to enclose suffering people in institutions across a country as vast as India.
Does a quote mention building a fence?
Yes, one recalls designing and building a hundred-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose personal property.
Is there a quote about art or line work?
Yes, one describes using a single wire line to enclose and define open space without taking from anyone else.
Are there related quotes about design?
Yes, our air quotes page pairs well with this collection's reflections on space and form.

Others describe enclosing space more literally, from building a split-cedar fence to enclose a property alone to designing a shell that turns a bare machine into something whole.