Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes
Elegance. It's an attitude. A frame of mind. An intuition, a refusal, a rigor, a research, a knowledge. The attitude of elegance is also a way of behaving.
Jacqueline de Ribes
Quotes to Explore
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
Umberto Eco
From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh
I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson
I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
Anton Zaslavski
I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors.
Najib Razak
I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
Caitlyn Jenner
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Ted Rall
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
Fantasia Barrino
The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
Barry Diller
Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
P. J. O'Rourke
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Dale Carnegie
I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
Ed Koch
If the books are selling, the money will follow.
Larry Kirshbaum
For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
Pat Gillick
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
Halle Berry
I will send a strong message that Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security and that we don't find nuclear weapons acceptable as Iran is currently envisioning it.
Barack Obama
I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.
Daniel Johns
Silverchair
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
E. L. Konigsburg
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.
Woody Guthrie
Elegance. It's an attitude. A frame of mind. An intuition, a refusal, a rigor, a research, a knowledge. The attitude of elegance is also a way of behaving.
Jacqueline de Ribes
