Sui Quotes & Sayings

Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe that when I feel happy, that's when I look beautiful ... I make a point of laughing out loud every single day. — Sui He

What's wrong isn't me, What's wrong is the world — Sui Ishida

Love this in the film, "Velvet Goldmine" it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery! — Anna Sui

Fear is like a fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you. It can heat your house.If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. Fear is your friend and your worst enemy. — Sui Ishida

When I was starting, there were wool mills in the U.S. that could make you anything. The U.S. used to produce the most beautiful cotton denim in the world. Now all that is gone. — Anna Sui

I love going to flea markets especially when I am traveling, because I love seeing the stuff of other cultures, handicrafts and things with historical content. — Anna Sui

In order to be released from that agony, it doesn't matter what it takes even if it means using your friend's life, right? And then after you've gobbled him down you'd be left alone to regret it while covered in blood and guts. That's the hunger of a 'Ghoul'. — Sui Ishida

What is the difference between "creator" and "craftsman"? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing - ex nihilo sui et subiecti, as the Latin puts it - and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs to the Almighty alone. The craftsman, by contrast, uses something that already exists, to which he gives form and meaning. — Pope John Paul II

I became part of the air that surrounded Sui, and breathed her incomprehensible sadness. I think that part of those feelings live within my soul. Burdened by bad karma, and a soul that beckoned such unfortunate fate, Sui used all the resources she had to make her way through love. I witnessed that. — Banana Yoshimoto

You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. — Anna Sui

I was in the habit of calling a kiss a peck. Bulkaen had said "a smack." As erotic language, such as we use in dalliance, is a kind of secretion, a concentrated juice that flows from the lips only in moments of the most intense emotion, of plaint, as this language is, in other words, the essential expression of passion, each pair of lovers has its own peculiar language, a language which has a perfume, an odor sui generis which belongs only to that couple ... intimacy ... the secret rites of a deep love. — Jean Genet

It's not because we can't take vengeance that we should feel sorry. The real reason to feel sorry... is when one is hung up on revenge and can't live their own life. — Sui Ishida

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. — Anna Sui

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

What's tragic isn't that we can't retaliate...
What's truly tragic is...
...being consumed with vengeance and not being able to live your life. — Sui Ishida

Humans are thought to be at the top of the food chain...
But there are beings who hunt them as food.
These monsters who feed on the dead flesh of humans.
They are called...
...Ghouls. — Sui Ishida

Human relationships are chemical reactions. If you have a reaction then you can never return back to your previous state of being. — Sui Ishida

I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes. — Anna Sui

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert? — Anna Sui

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too. — Anna Sui

Why was it I was seeing beauty in death rather than life? — Sui Ishida

People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems], I think, you find a certain beauty in the questioning, and that is then poetry. — Gwee Li Sui

If I'd been born a ghoul, I think I would've killed people. I just happened to be born a human. That's the only reason why I'm allowed to live a moral life. — Sui Ishida

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer. — Anna Sui

Even if it's a life in shackles, if you have somebody who accepts you for what you really are, how reassuring would that be? — Sui Ishida

I'm always about optimism and exuberance. It's what I feel about fashion. — Anna Sui

Fashion should be fun and accessible. — Anna Sui

Your heart is burning strong with righteous indignation... That flame is scattering sparks that may set fire elsewhere. That fire of yours will one day spread to others seeking a just world. The point is whether you have a torch in your heart or not. To light a fire to others. — Sui Ishida

It is true that we instinctively recoil from seeing
an object to which our emotions and affections are committed
handled by the intellect as any other object is handled. The first
thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with
something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and
awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and
unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal
outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a
crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing," it would
say; "I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone."
The next thing the intellect does is to lay bare the causes in
which the thing originates. Spinoza says: "I will analyze the actions
and appetites of men as if it were a question of lines, of planes,
and of solids. — William James

A piece of fabric can get me going. — Anna Sui

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant. — Anna Sui

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being. — Luce Irigaray

For to start life with just as much as will make one independent, that is, allow one to live comfortably without having to work - even if one has only just enough for oneself, not to speak of a family - is an advantage which cannot be over-estimated; for it means exemption and immunity from that chronic disease of penury, which fastens on the life of man like a plague; it is emancipation from that forced labor which is the natural lot of every mortal. Only under a favorable fate like this can a man be said to be born free, to be, in the proper sense of the word, sui juris, master of his own time and powers, and able to say every morning, This day is my own. — Arthur Schopenhauer

To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey. — Anna Sui

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. — Anna Sui

When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic. — Choa Kok Sui

I wanted to be a designer since I was a kid, and I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed. I always thought that they were the most interesting people. — Anna Sui

The way to overcome fear is simply to do what is right. — Choa Kok Sui

Trusting a human is difficult, but, if it's by you, then it's probably fine if I'm betrayed. — Sui Ishida

Courage is the difference between success and failure. You must have this attitude, this is the right thing to do. — Choa Kok Sui

People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent. — Choa Kok Sui

The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part. — Anna Sui

The reason why students do not progress even after receiving priceless teachings and spiritual techniques from the teacher is because they do not have a schedule; the sattvic energy is missing. Sattvic people establish the rhythm, they preserve the movement, and they preserve the organization. — Choa Kok Sui

Please... Don't make me a murderer. — Sui Ishida

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you. — Choa Kok Sui

The Soul is the Gateway to Heaven within you. — Choa Kok Sui

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.' — Jennifer Lee

A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair. — Ludwig Buchner

Rather than a person who hurts others, become the person getting hurt — Sui Ishida

WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME ALL ALONE..! I'm lovely.. I don't want to be alone. Mom... I... I wanted you to choose me... I WANTED YOU TO LIVE FOR ME!" "Even if it meant letting your aunt die?" "EVEN IF IT MEANT LETTING HER DIE! — Sui Ishida

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it. — Anna Sui

Behind a barbed-wire fence, a dirt road disappears into the distance in the pine trees and corners. Lost, dead roads, no ends or remaining purposes, power lines now dead and sagging and forgotten, grown high in weeds and young trees. The trees have entirely encased a speed limit sign, strange sight, nothing so pointless as a speed limit sign in the midst of dense woods, pointless and beautifully so. — Tim Gilmore

I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies. — Anna Sui

I'll tell you right now, a ghoul's hunger is true hell. — Sui Ishida

Whose fault is it that things ended up like this? Coincidence? An accident? Fate? There's no such thing as fate. It's simply a combination of one circumstance and the next. And who is it that creates those circumstances? Who is it? It's you. — Sui Ishida

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do. — Anna Sui

The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection. — Anna Sui

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it. — Anna Sui

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort. — Choa Kok Sui

There's only one way to satisfy a ghoul's hunger. — Sui Ishida

Being insulted by a smart-mouthed little punk like you.. really pisses me off! — Sui Ishida

Ordinary society is, in this respect, very like the kind of music to be obtained from an orchestra composed of Russian horns. Each horn has only one note; and the music is produced by each note coming in just at the right moment. In the monotonous sound of a single horn, you have a precise illustration of the effect of most people's minds. How often there seems to be only one thought there! and no room for any other. It is easy to see why people are so bored; and also why they are sociable, why they like to go about in crowds - why mankind is so gregarious. It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable. Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui: folly is truly its own burden. Put a great many men together, and you may get some result - some music from your horns! A — Arthur Schopenhauer

I don't know if ghouls are allowed to live either. But there has to be a reason we exist. — Sui Ishida

Life is a phenomenon sui generis, a primal fact in its own right, like energy. Cut flesh or wood how you like, hack at them in a baffled fury - you cannot find life itself, you can only see what it built out of the lifeless dust. — Donald C. Peattie

I live for fashion. — Anna Sui

You give me hope. The future, no matter how scary or complicated it becomes, will be okay, because you'll be with me. I can do anything, be anyone, as long as you're at my side. — Sui Lynn

Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us. — Walter Block

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. — Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time. — Anna Sui

Strong people are such pitiable people. Always having to fight for the sake of someone else. — Sui Ishida

I'm not going to protect you by being your shield or armor, but I'll be the dagger hidden below your pillow. — Sui Ishida

There's no place for someone who can't decide between being one or the other. — Sui Ishida

I'm going to gently scramble up your insides for you now, okey?~Rise,Tokyo Ghoul — Sui Ishida

The thing about books was, the more you read and liked them, the more you wanted to have on hand to read. Before you knew it you needed more bookshelves, and then all of the sudden they filled your house. — Sui Ishida

Most scientists assumethat life can only exist in physical life form. They send spaceships to other planets, looking for signs of physical life, not considering that life "may" also exist as energy or etheric form. Based on clairvoyant investigation, life also exists in etheric (energy) form; there are etheric beings of different degrees of awareness and development. — Choa Kok Sui

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show. — Anna Sui

By that which is self-caused, I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent. — Baruch Spinoza

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now. — Anna Sui

As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improved my condition. — Sui He

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at! — Choa Kok Sui

I consider it a shame that most contemporary American writing seems informed more by Hemingway, the hero of adolescent boys of all ages and genders, than by the sui generis genius of letters, Faulkner. A phalanx of books about boredom in the Midwest is lauded (where the Midwest lies is a source of constant puzzlement to me, somewhere near Iowa, I presume), as are books about unexplored angst in New Jersey or couples unable to communicate in Connecticut. It was Camus who asserted that American novelists are the only ones who think they need not be intellectuals. — Rabih Alameddine

This world is wrong. We have to correct it. — Sui Ishida

When healing, the healer should be calm and detached. He should not be nervous, "overconcerned" or attached to the expected results. Otherwise, the projected pranic energy will not be released and will return to him. — Choa Kok Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands. — Anna Sui

I can neither live with you. Nor without you. — Sui Ishida

I have a big responsibility to my licenses. All my licenses draw from and take ideas from the runway. — Anna Sui

If an angelic being fell from the sky and tried to live in this world of ours I think even they would commit many wrongs. — Sui Ishida

You still get the sheer quality coming through but you're covered. — Anna Sui

he is sui generis, a scholar and a wit. — Hilary Mantel

I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there. — Anna Sui

The cold feel of the leather...
Peeking at the world from my other eye...
It was strangely exciting... — Sui Ishida

Nothing's faster than the Internet. — Anna Sui

As you develop, the people around you develop. As you progress, the world progresses with you to a certain degree. — Choa Kok Sui

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about. — Anna Sui

You don't need to blame yourself just because you've hurt someone, just like when you're walking you can't really blame yourself to crush some ants... that's what being stronger ones means. — Sui Ishida

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection. — Anna Sui

If you were to write a story with me in the lead role, it would certainly be... a tragedy — Sui Ishida

Spirituality is connected with practicality. — Choa Kok Sui

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul. — Choa Kok Sui

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that! — Anna Sui