Sara Blakely Quotes

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

Sara Blakely

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• We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Kings

• Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Technology

• A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Control
  • Woman
  • Gun

• I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Own
  • Fortune
  • Scarf

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• I am an Indian to the core.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Core
  • Indian

• I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Torture

• Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Money
  • Know
  • Security

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Fight

• I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Fun
  • Care
  • Acting

• I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Bad
  • High

• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Blind

• My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Focus

• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  

  Sam Snead
  • People
  • Death
  • Sports

• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Holidays

• I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• Watching David write was inspiring to me. He was at his most content composing. Music floated from his mind and fingertips. He would strum the 11 strings on his 12-string Harptone guitar and wander to the piano and play a few bars, then off to forage for rice pudding in the kitchen.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Kitchen

• I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.

  

  Treat Williams
  • Success
  • Comfortable

• America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself - from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreading across the planet as if by divine providence.

  

  Kalle Lasn
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Long
  • Job
  • Movie

• I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of lifes wisdom.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Wisdom
  • Sympathy

• If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Moon
  • Comfortable
  • Pantyhose