At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Going on things like rollercoasters is not really up my street I guess. I don't feel like I need to do stunts.… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I like irrational things. I like scenarios where I can think, 'It would be great if at this point we could do… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I think that cheap music often does make you dream more than more serious music, whether that's serious music by Beethoven or… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I don't know about virtual world, I think it's more a kind of parallel world. I think the advantages and disadvantages of… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I think the only remotely interesting drug was acid. I had a slightly peculiar attitude towards it I think. Just about everything… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
