Coco Chanel Quotes

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Coco Chanel

• Possession
• Elegance
• Escaped

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• I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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  • Limits
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• My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Gold

• I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Think

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Time
  • Like
  • Glitter

• You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Stronger
  • Ready

• I bet she woke up with her hair looking like something out of a Pantene commercial while little bluebirds circled around her head, and raccoons brought her breakfast or something.

  

  Rachel Hawkins
  • Up
  • She
  • Hair

• If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Crazy
  • Laughter
  • Laughing

• Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

  

  Bahya ibn Paquda
  • Words
  • Meditation
  • Shell

• The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Giving
  • Ugly

• I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to just do what you think is right. Some people will hate you, but others, in the long run, will respect you for what you've done.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Respect
  • President

• Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.

  

  Jim Horning
  • World
  • Internet
  • Online

• War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Terrible
  • Magnitude

• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  

  William Blake
  • Science
  • Foundation
  • Empire

• Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.

  

  Bonnie McFarlane
  • Party
  • Bored
  • Cocaine

• When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Coach
  • Possession
  • Russ Smith

• Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Gentleman
  • Dignity
  • Elegance

• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Possession
  • Elegance
  • Escaped