Eileen Gray Quotes

#1. My favourite all time quote is from Eileen Gray, the subject of my new book The Interview. She believed, 'to create one must first question everything'. A concept that applies to writing as to life

Eileen Gray

#2. No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

Brian Oldfield

#3. To create, one must first question everything.

Eileen Gray

#4. To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot. There were two cocks that you turned and water came out: cold and hot. He felt cold and then a little hot: and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.

James Joyce

#5. A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

Eileen Gray

#6. Changing the way we have lived for twenty or forty or sixty years is nothing short of a revolution. 4.

Peter Scazzero

#7. I want my voice to have purpose.

Jeb Bush

#8. A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.

Eileen Granfors

#9. We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.

Eileen Gray

#10. Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Who do we become when we stop allowing all the voices in our head to crowd out the one voice we must hear to come to life?

Erwin Raphael McManus

#12. And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me?
And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#13. all of us lost souls allow ourselves to live in worry and anger and self-importance and pettiness when life with God is all around us:

John Ortberg

#14. To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,
To lie flat and know nothing and be still,
Are the two trades of man; and which is worse
I know not, but I know that both are ill.

A.E. Housman

#15. When you love, age, height and weight are just .numbers I agree and filling that the heart, has its own way ... count people and things!

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#16. I cringed at her entirely accurate summary of the kiss. "Look, it's not a big deal. I think it was curiosity more than anything."
"Curiosity? Like you were wondering what his tonsils tasted like?

Jaye Wells

#17. The future projects light, the past only clouds

Eileen Gray

#18. Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.

John Donne

#19. Jess wasn't religious. Not even a little bit. She thought all gods were basically big bully-boy cops dreamed up by people who wanted the laws they liked on Earth to be true everywhere else.

M.R. Carey