Personality begins where comparison ends.
KARL LAGERFELD
KARL LAGERFELD
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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I never fall in love.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Work is making a living out of being bored.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I hate the word ‘cheap’. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I am physically allergic to flip-flops
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery
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The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II They want to be the ones telling people: “This is what we have done in history” but when people begin to say, “No this is what we have done in history” it’s a different thing.
Ngugi wa Thiong'oNgugi wa Thiong'o It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
Wole SoyinkaWole Soyinka One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
Tycho BraheTycho Brahe The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
Giordano BrunoGiordano Bruno There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
Bram StokerBram Stoker Every improvement or innovation begins with an idea. But an idea is only a possibility.
Alan RobinsonAlan Robinson