Matthew Williamson Quotes

I wanted to create a collection of leather handbags which would not only reflect the brand's DNA but also appeal to a busy cosmopolitan woman.

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Life
  • Today
  • Change

• In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Question
  • Very
  • Beatles

• I don't persuade to suicide.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Suicide
  • Persuade

• One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Me
  • Learned
  • Relax

• To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Me
  • Clear

• I think I've made some choices that maybe I wasn't so sure about for some reason or another. But I'm one of the lucky ones. Even when I was young, I played Bird, and that's a role people wait for their whole lifetime.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Choices
  • Bird

• A fan sent me a letter and a $10 bill. It's a short letter - all she said was, 'Hey, since it's harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.' I was like, 'Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Money
  • Home
  • She

• I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Funny

• Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Life
  • Within
  • Secrecy

• It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Nice

• My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Hair
  • Dead
  • Movement

• When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Improving
  • Saving
  • Pretense

• His the author's renown has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Violence
  • Author

• Distinction is purchased at the expense of sympathy

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Sympathy

• You are the fools, not I - for I did dwell With a deep thought, and with a softened eye, On that Old Sexton's natural homily, In which there was Obscurity and Fame, The Glory and the Nothing of a Name.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Deep

• 253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Lies

• Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

  

  Logic
  • Art
  • May
  • Confidence

• Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • People
  • Joy
  • Facts

• I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Real
  • Guy

• Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

  

  Marvin Hamlisch
  • Remember

• I wanted to create a collection of leather handbags which would not only reflect the brand's DNA but also appeal to a busy cosmopolitan woman.

  

  Matthew Williamson