Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes

White stockings I do not like. Why does anyone except a schoolgirl want to wear them? Nothing is more flattering to the legs than flesh color.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: designer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: September 10, 1890 - November 13, 1973

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ColorWhiteWantNothingWhyLegs

'The Count' wasn't a real stretch. I was doing pretty generic Bela Lugosi bad vampire on purpose. It was supposed to be lame. I didn't put fangs on; it was a guy who was just going through the motions. I drew on the widow's peak with eyebrow pencil and wore a turtleneck, not a tux.

Joe Flaherty

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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

John Bright

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We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own.

Jeremy Grantham

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The United States lost the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher 100 miles east of Cape Cod in 1963, and the submarine Scorpion sank in 1968 in more than 10,000 feet of water 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

Andrew Rosenthal

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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Robert Smith

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The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people.

Sissy Spacek

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Persistence is a secret weapon for everyone.

Liu Wen

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Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make.

Debra Granik

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You're out there on an island. It's just you and the best receiver, man-to-man, in one-on-one coverage a lot of the time. And you don't really get any help. If you get beat, everyone can see. If you get scored on, everyone knows. That's the difficulty of playing corner.

Chris Harris, Jr.

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It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Christopher Hampton

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I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

Christian Lacroix

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I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

Anne Tyler

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