Haslam Quotes & Sayings

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go. — Jimmy Haslam

One of the West's singular migrations
from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley
is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read ... — Gerald Haslam

Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel. — Gerald Haslam

People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators. — Nicholas Haslam

I'm afraid of people, in a way. — Nicholas Haslam

I wanted to be grown up the minute I could. — Nicholas Haslam

I will accept comments and criticism about change. — Jimmy Haslam

A priest and a drug dealer both sell products that offer everlasting joy...although the drug dealers product is cheaper with fewer strings attached — Chris Haslam

It's rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It's rude - rude to other people. — Nicholas Haslam

I've always wanted to look different. I always think I've got this terrible figure. I'd like to be 3 inches taller. — Nicholas Haslam

I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later. — Nicholas Haslam

Let go of all expectations, and you shall never be disappointed. I find that rather disappointing to never be disappointed is very expected. Therefore let's only let go of those expectations we know will disappoint us and let's expect to be disappointed sometimes. Life is beautiful that way. — Nicole Haslam

Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent ... or just invent ... it's one's duty to not get stuffy. — Nicholas Haslam

I believe every room speaks, tells you what to do to it. You have to listen to that. — Nicholas Haslam

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land. — Nicholas Haslam

I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing. — Nicholas Haslam

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me. — Nicholas Haslam

I could care less if it's Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars. — Nicholas Haslam

I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in. — Nicholas Haslam

Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to myself. But I feel it would be nice to pass on my knowledge. Perhaps because I haven't got children - one wants to educate somebody. — Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is. — Nicholas Haslam

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field. — Jimmy Haslam

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. — Nicholas Haslam

MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'. — Nicholas Haslam

Often it's a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live. — Nicholas Haslam

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. — Nicholas Haslam

I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm. — Nicholas Haslam

I don't really do a big Saturday supper. I prefer entertaining in the daytime. — Nicholas Haslam

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing. — Nicholas Haslam

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more. — Mike Jay

Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person' came, via french, from the Latin word 'persona', which referred to the mask worn by tan actor to protray a particular character. In this theatrical sense, personality has to do with the role or character that the person plays in life's drama. The person's individuality, in this sense, is a matter of the roles or characters that he or she assumes. — Nick Haslam

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. — Nicholas Haslam

I go to Topman at lunchtime and stare at these beautiful, beautiful people who work there and who are so well-dressed. And I think: 'Oh! I want to look like that! They're amazing, how well-dressed they are!' — Nicholas Haslam

I had a face-lift, and I would have another if I needed one. It definitely changed my life. I'm not vain. In fact I don't like looking at myself. The face-lift was just about looking rested. — Nicholas Haslam

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men. — Nicholas Haslam

New York in the '60s was amazing. — Nicholas Haslam

You are not here by chance, but by choice: God's choice. He has designed you with a purpose and for a purpose in order to advance His rule in this sinful and fallen world that He originally designed to be holy and pure. No one else can do what God has planned for you to do and running away from this, as Jonah found out, will not bring peace and rest. Only His plans for you will give you hope not despair, and they will lead you into a good future, not a dead end wilderness of wasted life and — Greg Haslam

I've always chased glamour. — Nicholas Haslam

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano. — Nicholas Haslam

Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable of writing a really good game. My dad's a writer, and when you ask him how to learn to write, he says, "write." So basically, do it and keep doing it until you get good. — Fred Haslam

I'm the male Kate Moss. — Nicholas Haslam

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good. — Nicholas Haslam

I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've grown to love it so much, especially when writing my memoirs there at weekends. — Nicholas Haslam

When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past. — Gerald W. Haslam

It's terribly easy to be well dressed. It's much more difficult to be badly dressed. — Nicholas Haslam

I have always aspired towards other people's looks. When I was young, I loved teddy boys; I thought they looked wonderful. Then I was a cowboy in Arizona, really for the clothes! I had a ranch for five years; I had chaps made of bearskin. — Nicholas Haslam

I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid. — Nicholas Haslam

I have a natural curiosity for people. — Nicholas Haslam

I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better. — Nicholas Haslam