Norman Hartnell Quotes

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

Norman Hartnell

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• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Great
  • Society
  • Man

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Naive

• Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Money
  • Art
  • Making Money

• We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Humanity
  • Actions
  • Allow

• I'm conflicted about the lyric tattoo thing. I feel like that's a lifetime decision, and I always feel like, 'I hope you don't regret this a couple years from now when you get tired of that song.'

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Hope
  • Song
  • Decision

• To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Work
  • Always
  • Craft

• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Art
  • Woman

• Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Culture
  • Support
  • Sports

• The alleviation of the condition of insanity has also been accomplished now…

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Insanity

• Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Son

• What does matter is this: the Russians successfully meddled in our democracy, and our intelligence agencies have concluded that they will do so again.

  

  Adam Schiff
  • Democracy

• I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Job
  • Summer

• When you're working with your friends, it doesn't feel like it's work.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • Work
  • Friends

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Life
  • God
  • Why

• Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Honesty

• I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

  

  Norman Hartnell
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity
  • Negation