Daphne Guinness Quotes

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

Daphne Guinness

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• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Win

• I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Attitude

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Question
  • Better

• Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility

• If you never budge, don't expect a push.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Never
  • Push

• I'm all about showing people that I'm a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won't grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, 'Life is great.'

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Far too many people, especially within evangelicalism, think that the individual is all that matters, and that the corporate dimension is a distraction or diversion. Of course Christianity is deeply personal for every single Christian; nobody gets lost in the kingdom of God. But you can't play that off against the corporate dimension.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • God
  • Lost

• When I directed my first short – 'American Virgin' – I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Pretty
  • Idea
  • Sea

• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • High
  • Value
  • Friendship

• I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • God
  • Power
  • Energy

• One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.

  

  Irene Dunne

• Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Die

• In the dark, I like to read his mind But I'm frightened of the things I might find.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Mind
  • Dark

• I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Women

• If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Music
  • Don't Know
  • Extinct

• The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Lie
  • Uttered
  • Common Sort

• It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song.

  

  Chris Lane
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Thinking

• I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

  

  Daphne Guinness