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
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Sex

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• 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
  • War
  • Future
  • House

• 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
  • Up
  • Shoes
  • Simplicity

• 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
  • Picture
  • Moment
  • Photography

• 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
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]

  

  Larry Wall
  • School
  • Simplicity

• I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Writing
  • Simplicity

• Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Work
  • Simplicity

• What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

  

  Desmond Llewelyn
  • Simplicity

• Since I've become a mom, I'm more about comfort and simplicity. I'm essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories.

  

  Jessalyn Gilsig
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Life
  • Lies
  • Appreciation

• I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

  

  Bobby Brown
  • Life
  • Simplicity

• My ideals told me that men and women could both go out to work and be truly equal. My children told me something more complicated, something I really didn't want to hear. Their need for me was like the need for water or light: it had a devastating simplicity to it.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

  

  John Millington Synge
  • People
  • Animal
  • Simplicity

• I've always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I've never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments.

  

  Brian Stelfreeze
  • People
  • Black
  • Simplicity

• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Simplicity

• It’s not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents. Spin Magazine, Vol. 10 No.4, 1994.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • High
  • Alone

• He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Home
  • Hand
  • Wife

• I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it. You know, that I'm not a real designer, that I'm not this. I'm not a real rapper, either!

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Music
  • Religious
  • Singing

• Nothing scares me. I'll do anything.

  

  Anthony Dirrell
  • Nothing
  • Anything
  • Scares

• For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Simplicity
  • Characteristic
  • Directness