Connoiseurs Quotes & Sayings

I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something. — Nancy Meyers

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011. — Dexter Filkins

I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us. — Howard Nemerov

A single poem
is worth a hundred
cozy winter nights
kind words
and healed wounds. — Sanober Khan

Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses. — Stephen Bayley

Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent. — Dolly Parton