Amanda Filipacchi Quotes

#1. If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

John Banville

#2. He smiled, and reminded me that no man could make time, but only use that which he was given wisely.

Robin Hobb

#3. I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating.

Amanda Filipacchi

#4. For months I had been trying to be less myself.

Amanda Filipacchi

#5. Every beat of your heart sends the message of love over the boundary of infinite time.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.

Amanda Filipacchi

#7. My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

Amanda Filipacchi

#8. Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.

Alison Mosshart

#9. If you find you require willpower, you aren't ready to lose weight.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. We think we know people. We think that what we see is all there is. We rarely ask ourselves what goes on behind the curtain. We jump to conclusions. And we take everything very personally.

Amanda Filipacchi

#11. I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.

Franklyn Ajaye

#12. One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It's a pleasure that can be repeated daily.

Amanda Filipacchi