Beene Quotes & Sayings

But don't you want lots of money?"
"Beene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children. — Barbara Kingsolver

Though there are very serious disadvantages about being a true believer. Who would want four wives at any time, especially when one pays for the doubtful privilege by abstaining from wine? — C.S. Forester

You were right. When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses. — Matthew Quick

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh. — Geoffrey Beene

I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable. — Geoffrey Beene

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there. — George Herbert

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do. — Geoffrey Beene

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life. — Ben Okri

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion. — Geoffrey Beene

O what auailes it of immortall seed
To beene ybred and neuer borne to die?
Farre better I it deeme to die with speed,
Then waste in woe and wailefull miserie.
Who dyes the vtmost dolour doth abye,
But who that liues, is left to waile his losse:
So life is losse, and death felicitie.
Sad life worse then glad death: and greater crosse
To see friends graue, then dead the graue selfe to engrosse. — Edmund Spenser

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves. — Geoffrey Beene

Design is an unknown. — Geoffrey Beene

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens. — Geoffrey Beene

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable. — Geoffrey Beene

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important. — Geoffrey Beene

P.P.S. AND YOU CAN TALK. "Just say the word." JUST SAY THE WORD? What kind of expression is that? WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY ANYWAY? MORON?
Letter from Emily to Charles. — Jaclyn Moriarty

Gaveston:
I can no longer keepe me from my lord.
Edward:
What Gaveston, welcome: kis not my hand,
Embrace me Gaveston as I do thee:
Why shouldst thou kneele, knowest thou not who I am?
Thy friend, thy selfe, another Gaveston.
Not Hilas was more mourned of Hercules,
Then thou hast beene of me since thy exile. — Christopher Marlowe

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. — Geoffrey Beene

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives. — Geoffrey Beene

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion ... I could be a colorist of spaceships. — Geoffrey Beene

Beene-beene. The truest truth. — Barbara Kingsolver

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion. — Geoffrey Beene

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. — Geoffrey Beene

Shel: "I'm finding it really hard to fight wanting you, Josh."
Josh: "Well, that's nice to hear, because I stopped fighting a while ago. — Ella Frank

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs. — Geoffrey Beene

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. — Geoffrey Beene

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops. — Jon Anderson