Coco Chanel Quotes

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Man
  • Way
  • Standards

• What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • Changes

• I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Parents

• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • History
  • Science
  • Human

• Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • Standards

• If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Acting

• You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • People

• First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venue; I just remember it was the last stop on the A train. It was, like, the Far Rockaways, Queens, and it was an audience of, like, three people.

  

  Eric Andre
  • People
  • Remember
  • Stop

• There's nothing wrong with people that have four or five kids, it's just not for us.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • People
  • Kids

• I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

  

  Daniel Johnston
  • Live
  • Famous

• When I don't enjoy it anymore, I'll stop. But I think as long as people want me to be where the action is, I'll be there. I just love to play tennis.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive? What about an interstellar cloud? Could life exist on such a small or large scale, or move so fast or so slowly that we wouldn't recognize it? Could you have an intelligent virus?

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Life
  • Small
  • Intelligent

• We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

  

  Jason Kander
  • People

• Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • Work
  • Complaining

• I'm really fortunate that I type 120 words a minute.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson
  • Words

• Dinner is where the magic happens in the kitchen.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Magic
  • Kitchen

• I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.

  

  Mark Thomas
  • Job
  • Lost

• Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Growth
  • Poverty
  • Standards

• The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Models
  • Standards
  • Heterosexuality

• In the great court, surrounded by broken-down droshkies and the skeletons of German motor-buses, we spread our sleeping-bags on the oily ground beside our vehicle. For the first time since leaving Istanbul we had achieved Hugh’s ambition to sleep ‘under the stars’.

  

  Eric Newby
  • Ambition
  • Stars
  • Achieved

• There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster,my friend-you either have a bath or a nap.

  

  Andrew Kaufman
  • Monster
  • Bath
  • Nap

• I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

  

  Joshua Slocum
  • Friends
  • Universe
  • Books

• Keep your heel, head and standards high.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Standards
  • Heel