Top 25 Beene Quotes
#2. But don't you want lots of money?"
"Beene, I spent many years working for the Belgians in the rubber plantation at Coquilhatville, and I saw rich men there. They were always unhappy and had very few children.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.
George Herbert
#4. The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.
Geoffrey Beene
#5. I want to die, even though I don't have to.
Epictetus
#6. I think I've lost my faith
and I can't stop writing
because I don't know how
much longer I can hold on.
Emma Forrest
#7. The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
Geoffrey Beene
#8. Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
Geoffrey Beene
#9. Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Geoffrey Beene
#10. Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
Geoffrey Beene
#11. I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.
Geoffrey Beene
#12. When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.
Marlee Matlin
#13. Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.
Geoffrey Beene
#14. I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.
Gregory Corso
#15. Druids were supposed to be forces of preservation, not destruction, and I could not dance around the fact that my stupid pride had turned me into a misbegotten cockwaffle.
Kevin Hearne
#16. I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.
Geoffrey Beene
#17. I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Geoffrey Beene
#18. Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
Geoffrey Beene
#19. When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.
Geoffrey Beene
#20. The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.
Geoffrey Beene
#21. The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.
Geoffrey Beene
#22. Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.
Erma Bombeck
#23. I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion ... I could be a colorist of spaceships.
Geoffrey Beene
#24. A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.
Geoffrey Beene
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