Quotes About Ornate

For me, my way to think about everything in fashion is a very baroque way.

I like baroque things.

Yo diría que barroco es aquel estilo que deliberadamente agota (o quiere agotar) sus posibilidades y que linda con su propia caricatura.

The Ritz Hotel was grand, sophisticated, and established, unlike me. The only thing we had in common was façade. Mine may not have been as ornate but it was equally phony. I was presenting myself as an escort; I advertised as one, negotiated like one on the phone, and I identified as one to whoever was interested. I even simulated sex for escort rates.

We are part of nature. We are here to bloom like a flower- to ornate the earth with beauty, love, joy, happiness, and care.

filigree—charming if one but overlooked the fact that it

It was a curious box with rounded corners, made of a dark leather that had been beautifully tooled. On either side, done in gold leaf, was a striking design in the form of a double star, with each star having eight points.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

If architectural excess were a religion, Hunt was surely its patron saint, placing the most ornate of roofs over the heads of the city's elite from cradle to crypt.

inlaid in Florentine mosaic, the very flower-stands placed in the recesses of the windows, oozed and sweated with gold. At the four corners of the room were four great lamps placed on pedestals of red marble, to which they were fastened by chains of bronze gilt, that fell with symmetrical grace. And from the ceiling hung three lustres with crystal pendants, streaming with drops of blue and pink light, whose hot glare drew a responding gleam from all the gold in the room.

You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.

embroidered Louis XV chair, legs crossed at the

I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad in the evening sun. It is intensely sad.

In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes.

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.

You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We're strong in the inside, but ornate on the outside.

If it's extravagant, colorful and detailed, it catches my eye.

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

an ornamental dagger

H]istory is baroque.

Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.

The Greydon House is the new hot spot on Nantucket; Bart remembers when it was his dentist's office. It has been reimagined as a hotel and fine restaurant. The bar is dark paneled, the lighting is low, the furniture is ornate, and the overall effect