Hubert de Givenchy Quotes

Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.

Hubert de Givenchy

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Impossible
  • Environmental

• I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Color
  • Hell

• I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Live
  • Me
  • Someone

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Team
  • Know
  • Involved

• I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Great
  • American
  • Think

• I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

  

  Jack Anderson
  • People
  • Light
  • Hurt

• It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • You
  • Control
  • Yourself

• People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Important
  • Facts

• I'm all about scary movies! The 'Halloweentown' ones are my absolute favorites.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Absolute

• From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Beginning

• Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Men
  • Business

• My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • People
  • Game
  • Dad

• I hate these fucking stretch bastards junk pimp mobiles!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Hate

• The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

  

  Alan Guth
  • May
  • Free
  • Universe

• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  

  Alice Walker
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • True
  • Car

• Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.

  

  David Novak
  • People
  • Political
  • Community

• I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

  

  Phil Spector
  • Rock

• I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Up
  • Family

• Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy