Martin Filler Quotes

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.

Martin Filler

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• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Always
  • Once
  • Cubs

• If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Laugh

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Team
  • Record
  • Earn

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Think
  • Old

• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • World
  • War
  • World War II

• I was on a series for a number of years, and I got very used to only doing a mini-play per week. When I first came back to the theater, and I was suddenly doing eight shows a week again for three or four months, I had to find a new reason to do it.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Week

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
  • Life
  • Inspired

• I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Men
  • Man
  • Black

• I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Equity

• Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Language
  • Laugh

• As a kid, I'd get up at 3 in the morning during school vacations to help my father on his bakery-truck route. He didn't get a vacation from that schedule.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Up
  • School
  • Help

• Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Politics

• Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.

  

  John Sculley

• I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

  

  Anne Morice
  • People
  • Action
  • Imitate

• In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • She
  • History
  • Red

• Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many of your business aspects so you can keep your time free for writing.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • House
  • Water
  • Eye

• The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.

  

  Martin Filler