Alexander McQueen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
-
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
-
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
-
I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
-
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
-
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
Cussing ain't for everybody.
-
I've been training quite hard.
-
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
-
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
-
I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
-
I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
-
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
-
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
-
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
-
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
-
I applied to Yale, and I got in.
-
I want to play a character with grey shades.
-
But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
-
Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.
