Florence Welch Quotes

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

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• The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Gift

• Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Good
  • Like
  • Gems

• My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love your wife as Christ has loved the church.' Never forget that you are Christ's representative in serving your wife.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Church

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Political
  • Authority
  • Rights

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Facts
  • Argument

• In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Dreams
  • Dress
  • Princess

• I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Me
  • Child
  • Sister

• My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Minister

• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Opportunity
  • Present
  • Problems

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy

• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Colleagues

• No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Past
  • Without
  • Some

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Time
  • Man
  • Beginning

• But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Now
  • Australia
  • Agreement

• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Life
  • Crazy
  • Body

• I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Stock

• In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them.

  

  Erro
  • People
  • Painting
  • Pot

• Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

  

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