Hubert de Givenchy Quotes

Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.

Hubert de Givenchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FlowerBeautifulDressMeDetail

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

Jenna Blum

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I am a writer. It's like a third arm to me.

Michael Finkel

I AmMeLikeWriterThirdArm

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.

Amanda Bynes

LoveFunDoingActingStopSeem

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

Stephan Jenkins

BelieveCardsBallsCrystalNeed

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.

Steven Pinker

YourselfGunAmericaYouMovies

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

Romano Prodi

RichYoungPoorOldDividedUs

I do like going out and finding free food. I've done it since I was a child. Fishing prawns and shrimps from the sea is wonderful, as is picking blackberries, sloes and mushrooms. Having a guide while out looking for mushrooms is really important, though, as picking the wrong type can be quite dangerous.

Mary Berry

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I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me.

Michael Rooker

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I find airports to be purgatorial in many ways. I mean, even from the basics of the design: you know, this sort of - this muted gray and the fluorescent lights.

Jonathan Miles

DesignYouFindLightsKnowMean

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Jon Johansen

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I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Desi Arnaz

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Speak low, if you speak love.

William Shakespeare

LoveSpeakYouLow

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