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  • The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

    Country   History   Age  
    John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”
  • Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful. An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens.

    Book   Giving   Size  
    Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.119
  • I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because its so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

    School   Eight   Space  
    "A life in books" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2009.
  • When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.

    Source: www.highsnobiety.com
  • I began to hear what I was being taught about God, by the priest and my parish, and my exterior teaching did not coincide, did not match up, with my interior reality. And as they were teaching me about that God I was thinking: Who are they talking about? This was not how I experienced God. I gradually began to move away from the God of organized religion.

  • You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs.

    Dog   Horse   Children  
  • I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

    Book   Childhood   World  
    "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.
  • We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.

    Winter   Years   Sorrow  
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates
  • When men create movies about femme fatales, it really is always about how that female can destroy that male. It's not really about what's happening on the interior of that female.

    Men   Males   Female  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

  • When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is held together by a violent and abusive authority. But when men are violently deprived of the solitude and freedom which are their due, then society in which they live becomes putrid, it festers with servility, resentment and hate.

    Wisdom   Hate   Men  
  • Interior design is a business of trust.

  • I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

    Airports   Design   Roles  
    Source: www.cnn.com
  • Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

    Fashion   Men   Skills  
    Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.86, Macmillan
  • No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

    War   Enemy   Defense  
    Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Pablo Picasso (1983). “Pablo Picasso”, Harry N. Abrams
  • An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

  • All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.

    St John of the Cross (2007). “A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ”, p.221, Cosimo, Inc.
  • In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

    Stars   Animal   Reality  
    Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
  • Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

    Antonin Scalia (2012). “Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice”, p.141, Regnery Publishing
  • Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

    World   Lines   Neat  
  • Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that they decided they couldn't make the whole country move forward simultaneously, so they've started region by region. So the interior regions are much less well off than the coastal regions. And this is certainly a huge challenge, because it produces a flow of populations from the poorer regions to the richer regions.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.

  • God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

    Heart   Judging   Looks  
  • The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take sides to protect their investments - they have put billions of dollars into Shanghai. Their fear is that [these investments] are going to be expropriated by a warlord from the interior who will sweep down on Shanghai. They will try to form alliances with warlords to protect their concessions, and there will be a huge flow of weapons into China.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.

    Opening Up   Space   Way  
    Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”
  • When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

    Life   Positive   Night  
  • Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.

    Real   Tired   Character  
    Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com
  • I don't think I have ever really gotten Leopold Bloom's interior ramblings out of my head! I am sure that voice continues to inspire the walking consciousness in my work - that is, the way I carry on an interior monologue as I walk through this city.

    Thinking   Cities   Voice  
    Source: www.raintaxi.com
  • I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

  • One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter into the interior of our private world and a genuine interest in the private world of that partner. Couples in love tend to show more of themselves to each other than to any other person.

    Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin
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