A Quote by Christopher Plummer

I think of being ornate as a Victorian quality, little to do with Shakespeare. But even Dickens wasn't ornate; he wrote with flow and naturalism.

Christopher Plummer

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Christopher Plummer
Canadian - Actor
December 13, 1929 - February 5, 2021

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

St. Vincent

Writing can flow out when I'm feeling something strongly, whether that's joy, pain, fear, desire or anything else. The challenge is actually later, in the second or third or 100th draft of the music, when it can be so easy to cover up the original sentiments by making the music more ornate or cloaked.

Anoushka Shankar

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

Matthew Pearl

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.

Robert Gottlieb

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Paul Rand

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

Rila Fukushima

Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

John Milton

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

William Strunk, Jr.

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

Hannah Brown

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

Frida Giannini

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

Jane Smiley

What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.

Stephen Lang

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

William Caxton

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

Danny Boyle

From the 1920s through to the 1970s, bridal was related to the fashion of the times. Then in the 1980s, it became more historical, decadent, and ornate.