Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Want
  • Deep
  • End

• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Live
  • Greatest

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Black

• It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Writing
  • Books
  • Ever

• You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Work
  • Real
  • Remember

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Job
  • Strong
  • Growth

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Trying
  • Like
  • Cooking

• I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Football
  • Same

• When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• Georges St-Pierre is a good fighter who is proving his place in MMA with every fight.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Good

• There are networks of groupies - and nowadays it's instant because of the internet. Before, it took days to tell your penpal 'I just had Jimi Hendrix'. Nowadays, 20 minutes after you've zipped your trousers up, it's in New Zealand! Somebody e-mailed me a groupie website that I was on, and there was somebody describing my tackle. It was flattering but completely fucking wrong - I'd be the first to say that I don't have a ten-and-a-half-inch dick!

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • Internet
  • Wrong
  • Describing

• The way I think about the practicing, it is my undercover work.

  

  Keith Jarrett
  • Work

• Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

  

  Pope Francis
  • War
  • Today
  • Death

• I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists.

  

  Daymond John
  • Good
  • Work
  • Business

• Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • People
  • Life
  • Business