Suzy Menkes Quotes

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Suzy Menkes

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LuckFashionClothesDownPrincess

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do research on materials, people, medical matters, pharmaceuticals - the possibilities are nearly endless.

John Glenn

MedicalSpacePeopleResearchUnique

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Jean-Marie Lehn

FirstPaperRuleSignalsDerivatives

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Amy Grant

IntegrityPeopleAmazingBeen

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

Steven Wright

WorldYouSeenKeepCollection

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.

Steve Mariucci

PeopleSayWayMoreBigDifferent

I just loved classical music, but I also loved playing rock guitar, and I loved playing piano, so it was a natural thing that those things would merge at some point.

Trevor Rabin

MusicGuitarLovedRockPointPiano

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Roald Dahl

MyselfI AmBoyPossibleOldYears

It's wonderful being the underdog.

Diane Lane

UnderdogWonderfulBeing

For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!

Derek Blasberg

GirlChallengeTogetherMeFashion

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Tim O'Brien

DeathSameBottomMothersBecause

I hate filming in the studio.

No I.D.

HateStudioFilming

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

Myron Scholes

BirdDeathEarlySometimesFrozen

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