Philip Treacy Quotes

Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's so much choice. It can feel like entering a battleground.

Philip Treacy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 26, 1967

Topics

ShoppingFeelFindingChoiceGo

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Jimi Hendrix

FeelEasyBluesPlayHard

Fightin' George Foreman is like being in the street with an eighteen-wheeler comin' at you.

Joe Frazier

YouStreetBeingLikeForeman

When I don't have control of the ball, what do I do? I press to get it back. It's a way of defending.

Johan Cruyff

ControlBackWayBallGetPress

In making films, I'm constantly looking for people who are in conflict and who are going to surprise you and challenge you.

Jehane Noujaim

ChallengePeopleConflictLooking

I kind of write in my own little world.

Michael Che

WorldKindMy OwnWriteLittleOwn

Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya.

Tommy Chong

WillCigarettesYa

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Tom Stoppard

ChildrenRespectWordsWorldThink

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.

Juan Diego Florez

GuitarFestivalsRockBandCompete

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Josh Billings

LoveLove IsBlindKnowSaidSee

All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

Derek Walcott

ImaginationEffortMemoryFogMind

I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

Drew Barrymore

FlowerGirlHappyChildBe Happy

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

Bob Menendez

I AmLawDoingDiligenceVoteLand

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