Christopher Ricks Quotes

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

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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

• I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Money
  • Simplicity

• Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Night
  • Mom

• 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
  • God
  • Important
  • Country

• 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
  • Enjoy
  • Criticism

• Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Every
  • Orientation

• 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