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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
-
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
-
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
-
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-
On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
-
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.
-
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
-
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
-
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.
-
I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
-
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.
-
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
-
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.
-
When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
-
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
-
My life is not a political campaign. I just write about what is on my mind. I just play whatever I feel like playing. Whatever is in my soul at the time is what I want to do. I have, thank god, enough people who are still interested in what I am doing so that I can go out and keep doing it.
-
I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.
-
Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
-
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.
