Philip Treacy Quotes

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

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• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hate

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Person
  • Mystery
  • Destination

• Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Risk

• One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Song

• I'm quite good at not writing.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Quite

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Kind
  • Company
  • Employees

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• You can't hire someone to practice for you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Practice
  • Someone

• One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Party
  • California

• Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Man

• I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Brother

• A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Something
  • Consumer
  • Sore

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • America
  • High
  • Soul

• Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Heart
  • Funny
  • Style

• I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

  

  James Stewart
  • Done
  • Fun
  • College

• In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • People
  • Life
  • Architecture

• With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Think
  • Sad

• I don't really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.

  

  Logan Henderson Big Time Rush
  • Time
  • Good

• There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Architecture