Fashion Backstage Quotes

#1. A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.

Michael Oakeshott

#2. When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

Carla Bruni

#3. People who don't read fiction really scare me.

Tenaya Jayne

#4. I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

Gavin MacLeod

#5. The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

Benito Mussolini

#6. Life is an opportunity to find a friend and to be a friend.

Debasish Mridha

#7. One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'.

Hilton Als

#8. Boring' is not a virtue.

Seanan McGuire

#9. In the beginning, I thought it would be really glamorous, working in fashion. But it's actually quite hard. You don't even know half the stuff that goes on backstage.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#10. This world without a leopard ... I mean, who would want to be here?!

Diana Vreeland

#11. At the beginning of 'Will and Grace', I played Jack as the funny next-door-neighbor type, as we've seen in the past. And I thought that was my role.

Sean Hayes

#12. You could smell the rain in the desert even before a drop fell. I closed my eyes. I held my hand out and felt the first drop. It was like a kiss. The sky was kissing me.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#13. You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end ... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

Newt Gingrich

#14. yesterday made me think of something.

Kiera Cass

#15. My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Richard M. Nixon