Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

Paul Rand

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Sharon Salzberg

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

Tai Solarin

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

Theodore Zeldin

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Queremos comprender, creemos que si vivimos lo bastante vamos a comprender el mundo; dentro de una hora, mañana, dentro de un año,... Pero quizá no importe nada comprender o no.

War

(...) era vorba despre o carte care ti se lipea de mana, iar ochii refuzau sa se lase invinsi de oboseala numai pentru a continua sa citeasca.

Love

Claro es que para trazar un círculo hay que hay que empezar por algún lado, pero una vez cerrado deja de plantearse el problema de su principio.

Work

Cuando se comprende que hay un propósito, una intención transcendente detrás de nuestros actos, el descubrimiento de dicho propósito se convierte en algo prioritario, por no decir único.

Work

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Voltairine de Cleyre

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Vernon Howard

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.

Vera Wang

I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.

Vera Wang

Fashion to me has become very disposable; I wanted to get back to craft, to clothes that could last.

Vera Wang

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

Vera Wang

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

Vivienne Westwood

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

Vivienne Westwood

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

Vivienne Westwood

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Vivienne Westwood

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

Vivienne Westwood

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

Vivienne Westwood