Olivier Theyskens Quotes
A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.
Quotes to Explore
-
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
-
I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
-
I don't miss acting at all.
-
Body experience... is the centre of creation.
-
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
-
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
-
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
-
Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
-
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
-
If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
-
And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
-
Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
-
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
-
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
-
I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
-
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
-
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
-
More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
-
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
-
I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
-
In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.
-
The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.
-
If you have a guy over, and there's a whole bunch of china from your wedding, it's not a good idea.
-
A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events or situations, but it's very rare that you see a girl who looks bad in a black dress.
