Rustic Quotes - Page 2

• There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Religious, Humor

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• I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.

  Bill Peet

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I make very basic country rustic furniture.

  Thomas Middleditch

  Country, Furniture

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• For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.

  Thomas Campbell

  Rose, Yew, Cypresses

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• He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever.
  [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam
  Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
  Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

  Horace

  Life, Rivers, Waiting

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• I've always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there's got to be a better balance.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Cooking, Balance, Flavor

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• I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.

  Sara Ramirez

  Way, Jamie, Local Food

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• Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is an intelligent, self respecting workman, on a level at least with the town artisan. The village rustic of the past no longer exists outside of the comic papers.

  Flora Thompson

  War, Intelligent, Past

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• The Canadian voice is still too rustic.

  Charles Olson

  Voice, Critics, Stills

  Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”

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• When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.

  Brander Matthews

  Character, Play, Oscars

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• I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

  Donatella Versace

  Way, Wool, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Back in the day, Barry Crump not only had these stories that talked about that kind of rustic personality, but also, he spoke volumes, I guess, of the relationships in the stories that he told in these books.

  Rhys Darby

  Book, Personality, Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Rivers, Imagination

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Spiders, Woods, Crawling

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing under the rustic colonial clock and stared. He was drinking champagne. There were strings coming out from all around me, reaching out, waving in the air. Someone passed him a brownie. He held it in his hand but did not eat. He saw my shape and face, which had not changed-the hair still parted down the middle, the chest still flat and hips undeveloped-and wanted to call out my name. It was only a moment, and then I was gone.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Grandma, Drinking

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• Kitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "cliché" in discourse.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Museums, Odds, Kitsch

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• The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

  Frank Mankiewicz

  Squares, Water, Pounds

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• I live in Topanga Canyon, which is like a faux-rustic enclave in Los Angeles. I love the sounds of all the critters outside - the frogs, owls, crickets, and birds. Some of the birds around here are pretty accomplished musicians. You can learn a lot from them.

  Cliff Martinez

  Bird, Owl, Musician

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• Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

  Richard Whately

  Girl, Character, Animal

  Elizabeth Jane Whately, Richard Whately (1860). “A Selection of English Synonyms”, p.59

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• His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves the rustic but martial ignorance of the legions in the elegant superfluities of life. A bag of shining leather, filled with pearls, fell into the hands of a private soldier; he carefully preserved the bag, but he threw away its contents, judging that whatever was of no use could not possibly be of any value.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ignorance, Hands, History

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.333

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