I'm not an austere person.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that.…

— Sebastian Horsley

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage…

— Bernard Tschumi

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium…

— Jonathan Miller

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of…

— Charles De Saint-Evremond

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

— Sally Phillips

“What an austere landscape! Borluut was alone, with nothing but the sky and water. No footsteps, apart from his own, marked the immense expanse,…

— Georges Rodenbach

“Austere government buildings lined the edges, standing in the square an individual felt like a speck of dust.”

— Sylvia Vetta

I am an austere president.

— Jose Mujica

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no…

— Tim Curry

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain…

— Charles Dance

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

— Cristiano Ronaldo

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

— Anthony Burgess

I sound New York. I sound East Coast much more than a blonde person from L.A.

— Julie Kavner

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have…

— Bill Gates