Mary Quant Quotes

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

Mary Quant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 11, 1934

Topics

TodayFashionAliveBeingPart

I was surrounded by a lot of people not doing what they wanted to do.

Joe Penny

PeopleDoingSurroundedWantedLot

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

John Badham

FunnyTodayPersonalityMeRobotHe

We're gracious and we're humble, and we play the game a certain way, whether we win or lose.

Megan Rapinoe

HumbleWinGameWin Or LoseLose

I did television for a very long time, but if you're on television, words don't count. What the eye sees beats the words. If you switch sides, from radio to television, you learn that the wordiness that you learn on the radio is useless or not nearly as powerful, and you have to learn to trust that the eye will just beat the ear.

Robert Krulwich

TimeTrustWordsEyeLearnPowerful

The building blocks of discrimination tend to be similar wherever you find them.

Mary Beard

BuildingDiscriminationYouFind

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

Mary Pipher

ExperienceTeenSmallPressureGifts

Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.

Milos Zeman

EyesDeathPeopleInnocentTerrorism

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

GodManGreatnessSecurityTrue

I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that's icing on the cake.

Jonathan Van Ness

LoveJoySpaceCakePeopleProud

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.

Arthur Smith

FriendMenMeFashionWatchingUp

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

William Westmoreland

WarMediaTelevisionCountryFirst

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Plautus

UselessWellHeMeansDoesUnless

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