Jonathan Meades Quotes

• Si crees en la existencia de hadas en el fondo del jardín, se te considera apto para la papelera. Si crees en la partenogénesis, la ascensión, la transubstanciación y todo lo demás, se te considera apto para gobernar el país.

  Jonathan Meades

  Country, Believe, Garden

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• In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing... and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

  Jonathan Meades

  Believe, Thinking, Creating

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which can be dyed day-glo colours.

  Jonathan Meades

  Dog, Giants, Poodles

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown.

  Jonathan Meades

  One Day, Triumph, Cultural Relativism

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• You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

  Jonathan Meades

  Seven, Cases, Subjects

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture.

  Jonathan Meades

  Arquitectura

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone... a little countryside goes a long way, but it's almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.

  Jonathan Meades

  Dna, Cities, Long

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I think in space or music or art or literature of any kind there has to be some kind of void where the viewer or the spectator or the listener or the reader can insert themselves into it, and there is a certain kind of architectural space which is totalitarian, which does not allow you to do that.

  Jonathan Meades

  Art, Thinking, Space

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the Scottish think about being Scottish and the Welsh think about being Welsh, but the English don't really care. But the French think about it all the time, it's an absolute preoccupation.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, Care, Scottish

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.

  Jonathan Meades

  People, Way

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Vertigo doesn't apply in planes for some reason. You think it's some kind of magic and you don't know how it's keeping you up, but when you're on a cliff top it's a different matter.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, Magic, Different

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Sight, Interesting

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I think television is a medium which has the potential to do great things but has been traduced by these... terrible people who rise through the ranks.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, People, Television

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career has been concerned with writing about topography.

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Thinking, Careers

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Soy una persona muy, muy poco temeraria. Es decir, miro a la izquierda, miro a la derecha, miro a la izquierda, miro a la derecha, luego repito el proceso y entonces decido no cruzar la carretera en el último momento.

  Jonathan Meades

  Mean, Looks, Lasts

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• As primitive as digital can be, there is nothing automatic in the methods I use, it's all basically done by hand. I know nothing about computers. I don't like computers. I use them for writing because I have to. I have never had a conversation about computers in my life.

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Done, Computer

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always just about to do something really stupid. Tense is not the right word, but I am very hyper-aware of such things.

  Jonathan Meades

  Stupid, Believe, Tense

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• There is a tradition of television which isn't dross and stands up. Betjeman's programmes, which were made for 2/6d with one man and a cine camera, were amazing to watch because he was such a great talker.

  Jonathan Meades

  Men, Television, Cameras

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the late Conservative years - the end of Thatcher/start of Major and certainly continued throughout New Labour and continuing now - that new is necessarily better, so there is this neophilia which isn't the vanguard of progress, it's just the vanguard of the construction industry enjoying itself.

  Jonathan Meades

  Thinking, Construction Industry, Years

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps otherwise you wouldn't, and that's the only way I can put it.

  Jonathan Meades

  Way, Force, Interest

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I don't see any point in having a public service broadcaster which attempts to compete with the commercial sector. Obviously part of its remit is to entertain, but entertainment doesn't necessarily mean scraping the bottom of the barrel and appealing to the very lowest common denominator.

  Jonathan Meades

  Mean, Bottom Of The Barrel, Entertainment

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to say, 'Tall buildings are great' why not just leave it at that: "Tall buildings are great."

  Jonathan Meades

  Writing, Thinking, Should Have

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Al sector de la construcción no hay nada que le guste más que un lienzo en blanco sobre el que imponer un edificio a estrenar, porque así puede ganar más dinero.

  Jonathan Meades

  Construction Industry, Way, Likes

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Creo que la única droga remotamente interesante era el ácido. Creo que tenía una actitud un poco peculiar hacia ella. Odiaba casi todo lo relacionado con el hippismo.

  Jonathan Meades

  Attitude, Thinking, Interesting

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have, are worried. They're a very stressed people. It seems to be a very essential component of the national psyche.

  Jonathan Meades

  Worry, People, Stressed

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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