Gaultier Fashion Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed. — Grove Karl Gilbert

I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,
Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot;
But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife,
Was ra'ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life. — Bret Harte

(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is "sexy." I'm kidding, I'm kidding. — Jonah Goldberg

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use
this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until
now. — Masaaki Hatsumi

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details. — Erwin Schrodinger

For contemporary fashion, I'm a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span. — Colleen Atwood

All three networks have always had a morning show but now cable of course is taking some of that audience away and a variety of other things, probably the Internet as well. — Katie Couric

But there's a road to hell for every good intention. — Neal Shusterman

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time. — Jean Paul Gaultier

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. — Charlie Watts

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear. — Jean Paul Gaultier

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion ... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself ... no! — Jean Paul Gaultier

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager. — Jean Paul Gaultier

... I'm extra good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least. — Rainbow Rowell

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream. — Jean Paul Gaultier

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division. — Benjamin Cardozo

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him; — Mark Twain

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Hey!" I exclaimed, seeing the total. "They're charging me retail. Glenn!" I
complained. "They can't do that." I shook it at him. "I shouldn't have to pay retail!"
"What did you expect? You can keep that. It's your copy."
I sat back in a huff and shoved it in my bag with my sticky scarf as he typed his slow, painful way through my report. "Where's this human compassion I keep hearing about?"
"That's it, baby doll," he said, voice smoother than usual. He was laughing at me. — Kim Harrison

Happy the Dragon was not so happy. — Rick Riordan

Fashion is not art. Never. — Jean Paul Gaultier

My only fashion school was what I saw in the newspapers and on television — Jean Paul Gaultier

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood. — Whitley Strieber

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like. — Jean Paul Gaultier