Austere government buildings lined the edges, standing in…

I liked Jackie as an individual. I felt bad about how he was treated. He's a better man than me by far.

— Vernon Law

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

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

— Ansel Adams

I'm not an austere person.

— Paul Farmer

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

I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level…

— Heidi Hammel

The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens.

— Jared Cohen

We proposed Tiananmen Square - this very empty political square in the city centre - should turn green. Maybe in the future, this space…

— Ma Yansong