Farquhar McGillivray Knowles Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
-
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
-
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
-
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
-
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
-
Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
-
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
-
I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
-
I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
-
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
-
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
-
Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
-
When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
-
My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
-
I recently had the opportunity to participate in Inc.'s first-ever 'Hire Power Awards' event in Washington, D.C. The event was a testament to the power of American entrepreneurship and the role that it plays in driving job creation and innovation in a wide array of industries.
-
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
-
It should not be the government running the economy.
-
I'm always the one who gets killed. And I want it to be really gory. Body parts all over the place. Mangled!
-
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
-
If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
-
You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.
-
Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
-
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
