Quotes About Timeless

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.

My style is a little '70s and classic old Hollywood. I incorporate a lot of vintage, bohemian blouses paired with a good wedge.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one of your heart pills. It's that the greenness doesn't mean what it seems. It doesn't encode a pastoral past, much less a timeless vale where wee folk trip the demesne.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

Poppy does not identify with an age.

To me, a Harris Tweed jacket is the kind of thing you should be able to have in your closet years from now - possibly it was your father's jacket or, even better, your grandfather's jacket.

People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

I read very little contemporary anything.

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

I'm interested in teasing out the contemporary issues in what I'm working on, however old the piece might be, whenever I'm working on it.

I'm really focused on continuing to make pieces that you can wear forever and with all the other things that you love.

Once you make a cookbook, you live with it as your own for the rest of your life, like a yearbook.

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

No matter what happens in the future, I still want to be like Carlin, like Dangerfield where I can hit a stage when I'm 85 and still here people cracking up.

The list of Scarborough's rock credentials could go on forever.

'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make it a classic that you can pick up in 10 years and not cringe over.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

I don't want to be just the latest curiosity.

Just because something is current doesn't mean it is new.