Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

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• I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • May
  • Talent
  • Ability

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Peace

• People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Friendly

• Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Action
  • Luck
  • Election

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

  

  Omar Epps
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Instincts

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Drama

• Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Sleep

• I like kissing people because it's funny.

  

  Casey Abrams
  • People
  • Kissing

• Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Expanations

• People who don’t get out of their comfort zone don’t grow.

  

  Geri Jewell
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone
  • Get Out

• I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart, the same that had burst out of my chest in that distant moment when Lila had proposed that we write a story together. It had fallen to me to do it seriously. But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts, which no one would ever do better than me, not even Lila if she had had the opportunity?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Heart
  • Opportunity
  • Purpose

• In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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