Bob Colacello Quotes

I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.

Bob Colacello

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• I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Time
  • Important
  • Children

• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Study
  • Work Hard

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Hand
  • Poverty
  • Look

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Create
  • Break

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • Education
  • Friend

• I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Road
  • Been

• As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Inspired

• My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Being
  • Boat
  • Rocking

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • Doing
  • Roses

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

  

  David Deida
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Break

• David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.'

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Spiritual
  • Darkness
  • Shining

• You can always argue you're never good enough until you win the Super Bowl. And even then, you're going to lose players, and you're not good enough then, either.

  

  Jeffrey Lurie
  • Good

• I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

  

  Dave Edmunds

• Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

  

  Claude Monet
  • True
  • Public
  • Mediocre

• I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Life
  • She
  • Book