Perry Ellis Quotes & Sayings

Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.'
'Can't.'
'Why not?'
'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off — D.J. MacHale

In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be "me." (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.) — Christopher Hitchens

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity. — Mary Gaitskill

I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs. — Nina Garcia

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. — John P. Kotter

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready. — Iyanla Vanzant

I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all. — Kenneth Williams

Life is beyond hunting. And the Labour of gathering. It's all about love in the light of Life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A. — Sloane Crosley

The purpose of education ... is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions. — James A. Baldwin

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade. — Adam Grant

This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal. — R.A. Salvatore

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him."
-from "By diverse means we arrive at the same end — Michel De Montaigne

I'm not a great preacher, and I don't claim to be a great preacher ... I'm an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how. — Billy Graham

Love is no hot-house flower,
but a wild plant, born of a wet night,
born of an hour of sunshine; sprung
from wild seed, blown along the road
by a
wild wind. — John Galsworthy

Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it. — Terry Pratchett