Elsie de Wolfe Quotes

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

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• I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Life
  • Food
  • Cats

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Learning

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Free
  • Care

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Opportunity
  • Something

• Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Children
  • Eyes

• Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Guy
  • House
  • Kind

• There is no possible source of evil except good.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Possible

• I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Anxiety

• Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Like
  • Dreamers
  • Hong Kong

• People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.

  

  Lee Child
  • People
  • Power
  • Earth

• One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time-that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I don't know if you realize, but I use the word 'Fuck,' so that I can think of other stuff.

  

  Lewis Black

• For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Music
  • Different
  • Interesting

• When I was younger, I behaved a bit strangely sometimes - lost my temper, did silly things - but little by little, I've gotten better. As a chef, I think you need to do a lot of work on yourself and your temperament.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Work
  • Lost
  • Silly

• If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Life
  • Career
  • Question

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Happy
  • Small

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

  

  Elsie de Wolfe
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