Gratinee Quotes & Sayings

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? — Michael Kors

Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go away, to give a continuation or a meaning to the winter that had just gone by. — Francoise Sagan

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet. — Dido Armstrong

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us. — Croft M. Pentz

The state was made for man, not man for state. — Albert Einstein

Having a gun in your hand is very empowering. — Daniela Ruah

The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms. — Philip Yancey

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used. — Liane Moriarty

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later. — Nikki Rowe

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation. — Gail Caldwell

I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space. — Alicia Keys

We're not earthly beings any more ... we're cosmic beings. — Eden Ahbez

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me. — Richard Russo