Emmanuelle Alt Quotes

I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.

Emmanuelle Alt

• Black
• Color
• Invent

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Men
  • Done

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Change
  • Fashion
  • Confidence

• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

  

  Pam Grier
  • You
  • Everything
  • Top

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Child
  • Perseverance

• I'm an urban act.

  

  Maluma
  • Act
  • Urban

• It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Growing

• President Trump can't vote for me. The people that sent me up here sent me up here to repeal and replace, 100 percent, the Affordable Care Act.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Care
  • Trump

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was 'Jumpin' Jack Flash.' It was really bad. So we started writing our own - it was easier.

  

  Bono U2
  • People
  • Writing
  • Bad

• Baseball guys tend to flock towards steaks.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • Baseball

• We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Free
  • Bird

• That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

  

  Sting The Police
  • People
  • Failure

• The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

  

  Peter Davison

• I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Kids
  • Black
  • Community

• The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Independent

• I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Men
  • Free
  • Color

• I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Technology
  • Years
  • Three

• While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.

  

  Chey Tae-won
  • People
  • True
  • Society

• I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker color.

  

  Emmanuelle Alt
  • Black
  • Color
  • Invent