Birley Quotes

#1. The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

Kate Reardon

#2. I think Lucy Ferry, now Birley, is absolutely beautiful. She's a modern girl, but she moves beautifully. Amanda [Harlech] moves beautifully when she's not working. All those English leftover society girls.

Manolo Blahnik

#3. I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

Eddie Huang

#4. It's natural that I want to recreate a home.

Robin Birley

#5. I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's ... might be a good idea.

Luis Von Ahn

#6. Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Galileo Galilei

#7. It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

Gloria Steinem

#8. Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

#9. It seems to me now that what I wanted when I set off for Europe was not so much adventure as deliverance.

Jan Ellison

#10. What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Dean Koontz

#11. The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

Joseph Addison

#12. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#13. I've always been tenacious.

Robin Birley

#14. I'm a minnow compared to Caring with all his restaurants and clubs, and good luck to him. I've met him a couple of times. I've got no personal rancour against Richard Caring at all.

Robin Birley

#15. Why is your grandmother such a bitch to me?"

"Did you just call my ancient, wrinkly, half-crazy grandmother a bitch?" Ian laughs.

"Well, that's what she is!"

Ian shakes his head with another laugh. "Yeah, she is

Keary Taylor

#16. The curse of cancer created a strange and strained existence, challenging me to be neither blind to, nor bound by, death's approach. Even when the cancer was in retreat, it cast long shadows. When

Paul Kalanithi

#17. I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.

Kurt Schrader