Meryle Secrest famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

  • The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

  • May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

  • I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

  • Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

  • I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

  • Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.

  • Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

  • On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

  • You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.