Manolo Blahnik Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
-
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
-
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-
I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
-
The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
-
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
-
The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
-
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
-
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
-
Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvation. Even if they're murdered, beaten to death, imprisoned - that's what you do for God.
-
The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
-
It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
-
Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
-
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
-
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
-
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
-
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
-
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
-
I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes.
-
A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
-
There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.
-
Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence handed down by a court. It’s not even the plausibility of a well-constructed narrative. Literary truth is entirely a matter of wording and is directly proportional to the energy that one is able to impress on the sentence. And when it works, there is no stereotype or cliché of popular literature that resists it. It reanimates, revives, subjects everything to its needs.
-
My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
