Emilio Pucci Quotes

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

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• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Learning

• It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Earth
  • Control
  • Sky

• Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Hand
  • Decision
  • Woman

• I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.

  

  Pat Meehan
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Information
  • Twitter
  • Blank

• My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Up
  • Book
  • Me

• In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Day
  • Week

• I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Happy
  • You
  • Sad

• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Weak
  • Empty
  • Tongue

• At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Things
  • Many
  • Permanent

• Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity- the illusion that passage of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap which is closing around you.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Winter

• His real wife, his houri, his paramour was everywhere waiting, genie-like, in a bottle. The hymeneal gouging-off of the bottle-top, the kiss of the brown bitter yeasty flow, the euphoria far beyond the release of detumescence.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Real
  • Wife
  • Waiting

• To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Good

• I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.

  

  Brooklyn Decker
  • Time
  • Live
  • Dad

• I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Life
  • Success
  • Sex

• Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

  

  Emilio Pucci