Hubert de Givenchy Quotes

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

Hubert de Givenchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 20, 1927 - March 10, 2018

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Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.

Jet Li

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The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

John Lithgow

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I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.

Michael Gove

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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Ambrose Bierce

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It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

Stefan Edberg

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When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.

Masaharu Morimoto

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Make no mistake, in this campaign, I will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.

Mitt Romney

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I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.

Liza Minnelli

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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

Jean Anouilh

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I like 'Harry Potter.' I've seen all of them, I think.

Jared Goff

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The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Jon Meacham

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Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

Dinesh D'Souza

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