Christopher Ricks Quotes
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
Christopher Ricks
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
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Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.
Halston Sage
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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell
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Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.
Garrison Keillor
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I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
Linda McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.
Rachel Caine
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I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
Paulo Coelho
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I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, "You're great." We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
Christopher Ricks