Couturier Quotes & Sayings

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer. — Catherine Opie

I believe I'm a born winner. I always think about winning. — David Haye

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? — Andy Couturier

One can never outlive one's vanity. — Mary Wortley Montagu

I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing. — Colin Powell

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. — Andy Couturier

And the drops of rain. They are delicate, at first, their splashes graceful against pavement. Soon, though, the soft patter grows into a furious storm. — Ky Grabowski

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees. — Andy Couturier

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that. — Shirley Maclaine

I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something. — Yohji Yamamoto

There are times when you run back through your life, to see whether you can locate the point at which it could still have taken a different turn. — Herman Koch

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I'm not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be. — Andy Couturier

My family means everything to me and the birth of our daughter has enabled me to have more focus on my career and every time I compete, I dedicate my success to them. — David Rudisha

God not only loves his people but delights in each one of us. He takes great pleasure in us. He's actually blessed in keeping and delivering us. I see this kind of parental pleasure in my wife, Gwen, whenever one of our grandchildren calls. Gwen lights up like a Christmas tree when she has one of our dear little ones on the line. Nothing can get her off the phone. Even if I told her the President was at our door, she'd shoo me away and keep talking. How could I ever accuse my heavenly Father of delighting in me less than I do in my own offspring? — David Wilkerson

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. — Helen Keller

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money. — Andy Couturier

A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance. — Cristobal Balenciaga

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old. — Laura Benanti

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess. — Christian Dior

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them. — Nicola Formichetti

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish. — Yves Saint-Laurent

The modern painter ... is an excellent couturier — Joris-Karl Huysmans

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them. — Andy Couturier

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is. — Andy Couturier

We have to walk slowly and carefully because we are in a hurry. — Khem Veasna

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it? — Andy Couturier

The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond. — Madeleine Vionnet

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful
thing, a beautiful thing. — Andy Couturier

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies. — Andy Couturier

A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others. — Marie-Alain Couturier

The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality. — Thomas Mann

The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there. — Alber Elbaz

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it. — Andy Couturier