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Simon Van Booy Quotes

The joy of style lies not in how we look to other people, but in how we look to ourselves - and the most memorable and beautiful outfits are simply those that, in some rare moment of joy, we found the courage to share with the world.

Simon Van Booy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: 1975

Topics

Courage Beautiful Style Moment Joy

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and this guy was like, 'I see you behind a glass desk.' I don't. And he's like, 'Yeah, the glass desk.' I go, 'I don't really see me as a glass desk guy.'

Jimmy Fallon

Me Night Remember Trying You Late

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

John Burnside

Advice Country Listen Him Poets He

I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.

Joel Silver

School High School High Little Jock

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

Andrew Stanton

Myself Thinking Go Mean Anything

I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.

Melvyn Bragg

Living Write Arts Broadcasting Only

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Michael Frayn

Good Yourself You Wrong Create Beat

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Success Dream Others Success Is Your

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.

Smedley Butler

Business Sky Sometimes Three Limit

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Truman Capote

Beginning End Doing Be True True

That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.

Tom Golisano

You Entrepreneur Pennies Watch Being

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

Mickey Gilley

Today You Up Got Get Market

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

Jude Law

Great Style Myself People Fashion