Noel Perrin quotes

  • There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.
    -- Noel Perrin

    #Beautiful #Cities #America

  • Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

  • I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.

  • There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.

  • Don't frown beautiful, you fascinate me.

  • I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

  • On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

  • I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

  • In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!

  • I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.

  • There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.