Mary Quant Quotes

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

Mary Quant

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Up
  • Down
  • Boat

• I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

  

  Otis Redding
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Wedding
  • Boat

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Water
  • Childhood
  • Sea

• I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Live
  • Fall

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Summer

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Time
  • Summer
  • Back

• My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Family
  • She
  • Woman

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Summer

• I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I don't like clothes. I don't especially like cars. I have a very nice house. I get sick on a boat.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • House
  • Nice
  • Sick

• We've been back since July, but I spent some time with the family in the south of France over the summer. We rented a house with another couple and took it easy.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Time
  • Family
  • House

• He Steve Jobs showed me the boat he was working on … and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Good
  • Boat

• When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

  

  Willie Stargell
  • Mistake
  • Needs
  • News

• When Proposition 8 passed in California, some were quick to blame minority voters, some of whom had voted for both President Obama and Proposition 8; however, these claims were later debunked as being overstated.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • California

• There's an assumption that women don't start companies that earn more than X amount of dollars, or that have more than X amount of users, and Bumble is now really growing into one of the main players if you look at all the mainstream social-media platforms.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Growing
  • Look

• If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Feel
  • Dog
  • Suppose

• As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

  

  Mary Quant
  • Summer
  • Boat
  • Aunt