Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cam Newton

The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.

Charles Bukowski

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

Anna Wintour

I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.

Anna Wintour

They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.

Anna Wintour

Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.

Anna Wintour

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

Anna Wintour

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.

Anna Wintour

I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

Anna Wintour

I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Jonathan Swift

So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Simon McBurney

So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'

Douglas Sirk

Now in theory, if there is no straight line in the universe, this has its effect on art. Art must consist of something bent, something curved.

Oscar Wilde

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Josh Silver

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

David Russick

So much video art is passive. What I like about Cynthia's work is that you interact with it. That's what makes it exciting.

Louis Mahern

So much of this mall is a tribute to Mars. It's nice to have a monument to art and culture.

Christina Norman

We're always looking to inject excitement and energy into the show and Miami has a lot to offer. As far as celebrities, Miami is becoming a destination.

Robert Subbaraman

There is always pressure and challenges for an economy as big as China's that is changing so rapidly, becoming more market-based and reforming in so many ways.

Bill Gates

The opportunity to do better software has never been stronger. We talk about this digital decade and people living a digital work style or a digital lifestyle when they go home -and that is becoming more and more commonly accepted. As you move things away from paperwork and onto the digital approach, everything is software value-added.

Ben Reitzes

With film pricing possibly becoming more competitive, it could become harder for Kodak's shares to break out of the mid $30 range, despite many positives.

Reba McEntire

. . . we got our lungs from Daddy, and we exercised them early and often during those years up in the hills gathering cattle and becoming lost, when that famous McEntire yell saved our hides more than once.

Paul Watson

I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.

Mike Barnes

Everything is cleaner. Everything is dressed up. It's a better atmosphere, where it's not so dingy anymore. It's becoming more and more kid-friendly.

Ron Pollack

There's no doubt that it is becoming a huge political issue and may have a substantial impact on control of both houses of Congress.

Kevin Ratner

There's not a ton of new housing going up, and there are a lot of people who like the Downtown experience, who like high-rise living. And unless you go to the Wilshire Corridor there's not a lot of places to buy. It's becoming a real neighborhood.