Cecil Beaton Quotes

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Cecil Beaton

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• Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
  • Intelligently

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Nice
  • Play
  • Group

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • God
  • Trying

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Never
  • Someone
  • Fast

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Style
  • Reflect

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence
  • Early

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.

  

  Maluma
  • Experience
  • Amazing
  • Artist

• Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

  

  Vance Havner
  • People
  • Nothing
  • Grave

• The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Growth
  • Decisions
  • Recovery

• I see myself as extremely lucky.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Myself
  • See
  • Lucky

• I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

  

  David Chase
  • Good
  • Bad

• Music is international for me so it doesn’t matter the language.

  

  Johnny Hallyday
  • Music
  • Language
  • International

• When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Fashion

• The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

  

  Cecil Beaton
  • Fashion
  • Beyond
  • Fashionable