Period films to me are very often alienating to the audience. There's very often a formality. A staunchy quality to them that… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One… — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
“The two of us locked up our own little secrets from the real world. We had experienced countless sleepless nights when we… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy.… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength… — Stephen Moyer Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
True to their history, the English are very domineering and have manipulated it in different ways. I wouldn't say that there was… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I would watch every single Victorian romance possible. If you are in a corset, I'll watch it. It's one of those genres… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them… — Sadie Frost Copy Share Image
“Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.” — Nancy B. Brewer Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
