Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
-
I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
-
I am a Buddhist.
-
I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
-
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
-
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
-
We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
-
I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
-
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
-
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
-
I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
-
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
-
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
-
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
-
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
-
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
-
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
-
I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
-
Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.
-
I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.
-
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.
-
I was in Lahore before the partition, so I don't believe that a border can truly separate Punjab. I still think of it as one.
-
When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.
