Azrouel Yigal Quotes & Sayings

I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. — Norman Jewison

Kate Moss has great style. — Yigal Azrouel

Many people do not want to forfeit their fears. Fear is the only tool they know. — Donald L. Hicks

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus. — Yigal Azrouel

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties. — Yigal Azrouel

I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable. — Yigal Azrouel

I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically. — Yigal Azrouel

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head? — Billy Connolly

I have been surfing since I was six years old. — Yigal Azrouel

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? You might say
yes, you might say, nature without humanity. — Jean-Paul Sartre

But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We're suggesting that [kids are] missing something if they don't read but, actually, we're condemning kids to a lesser life. If you had a sick patient, you would not try to entice them to take their medicine. You would tell them, 'Take this or you're going to die.' We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional. — Walter Dean Myers

It's always fun to be the underdog and surprise people. It certainly puts less pressure on you. — Derek Drouin

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them. — James A. Garfield

First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere. — William Carlos Williams

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference. — John Dewey

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies. — Tim Burton

It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. — Yigal Azrouel