Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
-
I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
-
You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
-
Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
-
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
-
Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
-
You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
-
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
-
If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
-
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
-
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
-
I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
-
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
-
If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
-
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
-
Love, and do what you like.
-
It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
-
Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.
-
I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
-
Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.
-
The public has become my fairy godmother.
-
I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.
