Stephen Bayley Quotes

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

Stephen Bayley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 13, 1951

Topics

StyleRealityMannersMoreTaste

One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

WorldStoryLookSameSeeTake

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

Michael Bloomberg

ChancePresidentBecomingJewReally

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Simon Conway Morris

LifeTheatrePlaceDramaUnderstand

When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

Tommy Mottola

MeLittle ThingsSparkSomeoneLook

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

Rob Corddry

ControlStoryYouWayMoreOver

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

Rita Rudner

BeachMiamiSummerGoSaidStarted

I love English, Spanish, and German football.

Romelu Lukaku

LoveFootballEnglishSpanishI Love

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

CareLogicLookSeeHowTakes

I like surprises.

Christopher Hitchens

SurprisesLike

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

Cleo Moore

TakeAfternoonLikeNaps

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

Tim O'Brien

TimeStupidLovedEveryoneOrder

We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.

Nina Garcia

TimeShoesBetterClothesYouFirst

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