Hubert de Givenchy Quotes

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

Hubert de Givenchy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StrengthHistoryStudentGeography

I was obsessed with the Spice Girls! I always wanted to be Sporty. Or Posh, but I wasn't pretty enough.

Jessie J

EnoughSpiceAlwaysPrettyWanted

I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!

Jessica Szohr

HairBetterCleanDryJustShampoo

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

John B. Larson

WorldOpportunitiesWantChanging

You don't think, when you start a company as the founding CEO, that if your venture actually works, you end up with three jobs: founder, CEO, and chair of the board. The first eight years at Bonobos, I have learned a lot about the tension between the first two. It didn't even occur to me that I had the third job until much later.

Andy Dunn

JobMeStartThinkEndChair

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

FreedomPeopleCriticismLaziness

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

HistoryWarWorldYouPageWill

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Tillotson

GreatIgnoranceTwoRuinMankind

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

SmallLegalThroughBreakCatchMay

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Denis Waitley

PassionChaseYourPension

I'm up for doing a part if I thought the part was right and the people want to consider me for a part. If I thought the part was absolutely exciting... I would go for it.

Colm Wilkinson

PeopleMeThoughtDoingGoWant

It feels amazing to be on the MTV Brand New list. I was shocked when I got told - a good shocked. I'm proper happy about it.

Anne-Marie

GoodHappyAmazingBrandNewGot

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

Les Dawson

MarriageFinishUpInstitutionWhere

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