Conrad Hall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
Edgardo Osorio -
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
Taylor Hicks -
I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
Yves Chauvin -
I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
Halsey -
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Madeleine L'Engle
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
Tao Okamoto -
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
Sam Mendes -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
Patrick Rafter -
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
-
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
Barbara Smith -
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen -
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
Zendaya -
It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
Ha-Joon Chang -
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
Yael Stone
-
There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
Valentino Garavani -
If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.
Lydia Millet -
I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Yes.” She smiled, liking the word. “What I feel like right now—I’d compare it to waking from a dream and seeing the real world. It’s a beautiful place, but it also has darkness. If you try to eradicate that darkness, you also destroy the light.” Pain for the future of her people tightened her heart.
Nalini Singh -
If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
will.i.am -
I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
Conrad Hall