Nicolas Ghesquiere Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
-
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
-
There are a lot of bad people out there.
-
No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
-
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
-
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
-
I'm curvy.
-
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
-
You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
-
Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
-
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
-
I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
-
I think I'm a good judge of character.
-
The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
-
You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
-
I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
-
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
-
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
-
Danny DeVito later told me that he knew he wanted me for 'Matilda' the second I walked in the door. I'm not sure if this is true, or if he was just being nice, but I was thrilled when I got it.
-
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
-
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
-
Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.
