Elizabeth Hawes Quotes

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

Elizabeth Hawes

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• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Love
  • Want

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Documentary

• The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Liberty

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Think
  • Words

• Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Need
  • Take
  • Spine

• Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • State
  • WIld
  • Experimentation

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Learning
  • Democracy
  • Win

• She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  

  Rain
  • She
  • Earth

• You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

  

  Dan Millman

• Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Live

• Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

  

  Mark O'Donnell

• I am not sure what the future holds for me personally, but I envision myself continuing to work on spaceflight programs.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Work
  • Future

• There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Men
  • Book

• I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Life
  • Working
  • Facebook

• Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

  

  Kim Weston

• I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Problem
  • Existence
  • Vampire

• It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

  

  Elizabeth Hawes
  • Life
  • Clothes
  • Exist