Philip Treacy Quotes

How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.

Philip Treacy

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Growing

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Painting

• A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • May
  • Career
  • Science

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Old
  • Grow

• I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Relationships
  • Personal

• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Science
  • Know
  • Progress

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Energy
  • City
  • Young

• There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Play
  • Thing
  • Hesitation

• True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Life
  • True
  • Influence

• You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Job
  • Success
  • Road

• Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Best

• One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!

  

  Laila Robins
  • Important
  • Question
  • Day

• We'll kind of study the film, ... but I think he's got a lot of poise in there. I think he carries himself well. I think he's an accurate passer, but we're still getting to know him.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Study
  • Poise
  • Passer

• I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

  

  Sienna Miller
  • Woman
  • Behaviour
  • Contribute

• That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Rules
  • Businesses
  • Robes

• How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.

  

  Philip Treacy