John Varvatos Quotes

A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.

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• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Meal
  • Scheme
  • Effectively

• I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Woman
  • Write
  • Novel

• My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Wish
  • Mission
  • I Wish

• A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Self

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • Just
  • Boots

• The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Stop
  • Day

• The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Lord
  • Little
  • Naive

• I don't completely understand why people in Aspen want to hear what I have to say.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Why
  • Want

• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Artists

• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Money
  • Business
  • Author

• I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Me

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I've always lived in the moment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis

• 'By Any Means' follows a team of behind-the-scenes crime-prevention team - not police. They basically go to the areas of crime where the police can't touch and organised crime fighting units can't go to - in the public eye - to bring about real justice, treading the line between 'true' justice and what the law says is justice.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • Real
  • True
  • Law

• The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Peace

• In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • Party

• My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Up
  • Together
  • Humanity

• I always want more, and that's just my life.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life

• A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.

  

  John Varvatos
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