Rococo Quotes

#1. His bedroom was the gilded, diamond-studded, pearl-encrusted rococo lair of a god-king.

Lev Grossman

#2. I like Modernism. I grew up around these sort of eclectic, heavily carved, baroque, rococo, highly ornamented styles that were in my life from the time that I was a child until now in my business life. So I like clean, straight, minimalist lines.

Paul Brown

#3. You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on this : for me it's my very breath, the one thing necessary, and all else is excretion and a latrine.

Arno Hintjens

#4. We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front page, even as every trivial twist and turn in the rococo political drama has a secure place as the lead story.

Timothy Noah

#5. Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

Frank Wedekind

#6. If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

Ben Schott

#7. In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

Alan Perlis

#8. Sylvia's inherent appreciation for beauty as both artist and consumer is evident in her journals and letters ... ... .she wrote beautifully about clothes. She wrote about them with irony and wit mixed in with all the rococo prettiness.

Elizabeth Winder

#9. The room was rococo. I had a strong sense of gilt.

Eric Idle

#10. I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Ben Schott

#11. There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden ... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

G. Stanley Hall

#12. Orthodoxy builds a rococo logical palace on loose empirical sand.

Richard R. Nelson

#13. Oooh!" Bill squealed. "Very rococo."
"So, I'm really doing this? I'm just going to go down there and pretend
" (Luce)
"No pretending." Bill shook his head. "Own it. Own that cleavage, girl, you know you want to.

Lauren Kate

#14. You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It's a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.

Michael Kors

#15. I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look too.

Kelly Preston

#16. Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

Nancy Johnson

#17. A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young.

Lillian Hellman

#18. I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#19. Yes, she was his angel. But can't you guess, my love? She was his demon too.

Megan Chance

#20. Our nation needs the BRAC process. No institution can remain successful if it does not adapt to its constantly changing environment. Our armed forces must adapt to changing global threats, evolving technology and new strategies and structures.

Anthony Principi

#21. Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

Storm Jameson

#22. Tanith: Serpine is used to the Elders taking forever to make their calm, thought-out decisions. So he won't be expecting anything as amazingly rash and reckless as this
Ghastly: That'll teach him to underestimate stupid people.

Derek Landy

#23. What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#24. Other men might dream of high honors or riches or deeds of valor sung by minstrels. I wanted to come to a small cot as light faded, to sit in a chair by a fire, my back aching from work, my hands rough with toil, and hold a little girl in my lap while a woman who loved me told me of her day.

Robin Hobb

#25. There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

Peter Coyote

#26. I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.

Andrew Ripp

#27. There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Kumi Naidoo

#28. Remember a few months ago when I told you sometimes we have to have really bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective?" I think I nod. I can't really feel my body anymore. "Well, this is one of the good days. This is one of the really good days.

Colleen Hoover