Sofia Coppola Quotes

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

Sofia Coppola

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• I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Wonderful
  • Fake
  • Given

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  

  P. D. James
  • People
  • Today
  • Guilty

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Bad
  • Strong
  • Identity

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• A number of years ago, I found a book of photography by Weegee; he was a crime photographer in the 1930s in New York. He was the first person to put a police scanner in a car and drive around.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Book
  • Car
  • Police

• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Glory
  • Journalism
  • Surely

• This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Confidence
  • Advice

• Secular culture, with the aid of psychoanalysis, has continued the old Christian habit of observing the self only to criticize it.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Culture
  • Christian
  • Habit

• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

  

  Billy Graham
  • Courage
  • Brave

• I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

  

  DJ Khaled

• We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Important
  • Why
  • Church

• Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music

• When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music

• A full mind is an empty bat.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Mind

• The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

  

  Alex Shoumatoff
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Sun

• I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Singing

• There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • America
  • History
  • Past

• Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Average

• One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever - and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Forever

• I would never say anything's over forever. How could you possibly know how you feel? How could you shut the door on anything?

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Forever
  • Door

• The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Forever
  • Might
  • Lasts