Top 30 Nouveau N Quotes
#1. A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
Elsa Peretti
#2. Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices ... sing also with your conduct.
Saint Augustine
#3. Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
P. J. O'Rourke
#4. You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.
J.D. Salinger
#5. Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler's heart, kill your darlings.
Stephen King
#6. The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali
#7. They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.
Margaret Atwood
#8. I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.
Mat McNerney
#9. Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.
Sergio Aragones
#10. The 2015 edition updates the 2013 edition with more than 40 pages of new content.
D.K. Segraves
#11. Japonisme was a vertical phenomenon running through a number of successive styles; Art Nouveau was a horizontal, chronologically limited phenomenon that embodied the aim of giving expression to a new experience of life.
Klaus Berger
#12. I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
H.R. Giger
#13. The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.
Tracey Ullman
#15. The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.
Daniel S. Greenberg
#16. Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.
Michel Houellebecq
#18. We must stop calling our drug barons and "419s" (fraudsters) nouveau riche, big shots or those who have made it.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.
John Rosemond
#20. A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.
Paula Malcomson
#21. There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
Gore Vidal
#22. Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure
When long delay has given the evil strength.
Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
He'll be less ready who's not ready now.
Ovid
#23. What reader or dreamer doesn't imagine the romantic life of a writer, who lingers between the desk and the fridge in the morning and in the evening attends cocktail parties thrown by nouveaux riches and the society ladies who hardly ever have the time to read?
Rawi Hage
#24. Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe? / Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du NOUVEAU! (rough translation : Into the abyss
Heaven or Hell, what difference does it make? / To the depths of the Unknown to find the NEW!)
Charles Baudelaire
#25. Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.
Bryant McGill
#26. The "Art Nouveau" appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. "I'm alive." "I'm decorative.
Susan Sontag
#27. The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself.
Glyn Parry
#28. When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison
#29. I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
Manuel Puig
#30. Domenico had that 'look-at-me I've-got-money' attitude about him. A proper nouveau riche. In combination with his pig-like table manners at home, it was a sight to behold.
K.A. Merikan
