Interiors Quotes - Page 2

Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.

Mimi Sheraton

Glasses, Cities, Antiques

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Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter al-Qaida, including precise operations based on good intelligence, changes in their corrections facilities, superb strategic communications programs and a host of other initiatives - all of which, together, have helped Saudi Arabia achieve impressive results in their fight against extremists.

David Petraeus

Communication, Fighting, Intelligent

Source: www.spiegel.de

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The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

Eudora Welty

Writing, Character, Plot

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Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Ernest Hemingway

Writing, Action, Emotion

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To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

Dorothy Draper

Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

Hubert Van Zeller

Peace, Thinking, Pulse

Hubert Van Zeller (1973). “Considerations”, Templegate Publishers

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We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.

Dana Spiotta

Long, Lazy, Afternoon

Dana Spiotta (2006). “Eat the Document: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

Andree Putman

Design, Like You, Refrigerators

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Ancient rock paintings remind us that there are no unclaimed lands, that people have always lived here. They are wayposts along the river journey to the interior of the mind and heart.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

Heart, Journey, Rocks

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Silence is, after all, the context for the deepest appreciation of art: the only important evaluations are finally, personal, interior ones.

Robert Adams

Appreciation, Art, Silence

Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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Your adventure has to be coming out of your own interior. If you are ready for it then doors will open where there were no doors before, and where there would not be doors for anyone else. And you must have courage. It's the call to adventure, which means there is no security, no rules.

Joseph Campbell

Adventure, Mean, Doors

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Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'

Pope Benedict XVI

Jesus, Voice, Silence

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The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.

Daniel Pinchbeck

War, Responsibility, Technology

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When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

Jodie Foster

Lonely, Growing Up, Book

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It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

Tadao Ando

Life, Positive, Dream

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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

Tatiana Maslany

Makeup, Hair, Interesting

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We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

Richard J. Foster

Two, Silence, Solitude

Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Julia Cameron

Creativity, Gestation Period, Ideas

Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

Patti Smith

World, Lines, Neat

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Red, of course, is the colour of the interior of our bodies. In a way it's inside out, red.

Anish Kapoor

Body, Red, Way

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...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.

William Wordsworth

God, Blue, East

William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, [s.n.]

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I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

Jerry Seinfeld

Mother, Mirrors, Guy

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When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

Dale Chihuly

Life, Positive, Night

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I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

Elsie de Wolfe

Art, Mean, Giving

Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

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There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

Peter York

Design, Style, Biscuits

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