Norman Hartnell Quotes

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

Norman Hartnell

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• I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Know

• 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 get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

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

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

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

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Sorrow
  • Misery
  • Stream

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• 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

• I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Independence

• 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 was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Me
  • Library

• And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • College
  • Act
  • Plays

• I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.

  

  Jay Ryan
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Happiness

• In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Simplicity
  • Context
  • Frills

• I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Battle
  • Soldiers
  • Panic

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

  

  Norman Hartnell
  • Beautiful
  • Simplicity
  • Negation