Coco Before Chanel Quotes

#1. Before me no one would have dared dress in black

Coco Chanel

#2. I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

Brad Garrett

#3. I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

Gordon Ramsay

#4. I was, aged nine, the go-to kid in Minneapolis for a commercial voiceover.

Vincent Kartheiser

#5. [On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?

Doris Lessing

#6. A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism.

Coco Chanel

#7. Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

James A. Baldwin

#8. It is in the most undesirable of external circumstances that we discover internal qualities like courage, faith, compassion, inspiration, acceptance, and love.

Christine Hassler

#9. I can have silent meltdowns called shutdowns. Sensory input becomes too much. I am physically and emotionally exhausted. I curl up into a ball in a safe place to recover.

Tina J. Richardson

#10. I think she always nursed a small mad hope.

Vladimir Nabokov

#11. is commonly felt that the

Melvin Powers

#12. I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.

Shirley Bassey

#13. My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

Kim Hyesoon

#14. We are completely saddled and bridled, and ... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

Coco Chanel

#16. In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an
unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

Napoleon Bonaparte