Famous Quotes & Sayings

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Virginia Postrel

Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.

Constance Marie

I get as much sleep as possible. When I get home, I have just enough energy to lay out my clothes and go to bed.

E. W. Howe

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

Donatella Versace

I love the mix of people who hang out at nightclubs now. Their individuality is an inspiration to me. The music they listen to, the clothes they wear and the way they wear them defines a street style that I love.

Sam Foss

The path that leads to a loaf of bread, Winds through the swamps of toil; And the path that leads to a suit of clothes, Goes through a flowerless soil, And the paths that lead to the loaf of bread, And the suit of clothes are hard to tread

Big Sean

You can go up to the editor of 'Vogue,' and she might think I have horrible style, or maybe she thinks I have great style. Who knows? I don't really know too much about it: I just know what I like and what I don't like. I love clothes and making my own clothes and shoes, like I got to do with Adidas.

Nayvadius Cash

I've always been into fashion since I was a kid. I love fashion. I appreciate it. I just enjoy dressing up and getting all the new sneakers and all the hot exclusive clothes - I did even when I was young.

C. S. Lewis

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

Betsey Johnson

It's just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

Bonnie Bassler

If I didn't teach the aerobics class, I wouldn't come, and I need to stay in shape. I've got a whole wardrobe of sleeveless dresses and strapless gowns, not to mention the short skirts.

Bethany Mota

I feel like whenever you dress for someone else you probably won't be as comfortable, because that's not what you genuinely want to wear.

Becca Fitzpatrick

It will cost me a lot to send you with Scott wearing that dress but, just so you know: if you come with that dress slightly wrinkled,I will trace Scott, and when I find him, it's not gonna be pretty

Wolfgang Joop

For summer I have no idea where to go with an evening gown. In my life there are no occasions to go, so it looks like the kimonos and the little party dresses underneath, like you had a party the night before.

Diane von Furstenberg

It's the woman you should remember, not the dress, ever.

Diane von Furstenberg

Feel like a woman, wear a dress!

China Machado

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

Charles Lamb

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

Eddie Izzard

I wear whatever I want whenever I want. I don't call it drag; I don't even call it cross-dressing. It's just wearing a dress.

Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Ismail Kadare

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

Emile M. Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Bruno Senna

One of my greatest pleasures in motor racing is qualifying. You have loads of freedom from pushing a lap the whole way. I've always been very good in qualifying in the past; everything I've done, I've got pole positions.

Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

F. Sionil Jose

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Steve Boylan

The 2,000 service members killed in Iraq supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom is not a milestone,

Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Imelda May

I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

Gillian Armstrong

Maybe not many women are going to film school.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Carrie Snow

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

Carrie Chapman Catt

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Bette Davis

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.