Traditional Quotes

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

God loves you, and this is something on which all our religious traditions are agreed.

My family is really proper.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style… I cook from the soul.

The unadmitted reason why traditional readers are hostile to e-books is that we still hold the superstitious idea that a book is like a soul, and that every soul should have its own body.

The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates.

American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

My work doesn’t speak about individuals (it’s not portraiture in the traditional sense), it tries to speak about life in general in cities of the West – which is where I live and what I understand.

The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.