Top 25 Frank Crowninshield Quotes
#1. In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
Frank Crowninshield
#2. No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead
Lauren Bacall
#3. I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.
Frank Crowninshield
#4. Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets
Tom Peters
#5. Not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.
Frank Crowninshield
#6. We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
Frank Crowninshield
#7. The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Henry Miller
#8. My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been able, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.
Frank Crowninshield
#9. I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.
Rupert Everett
#10. Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.
Frank Crowninshield
#11. I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.
Hillary Clinton
#12. I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.
Phyllis Logan
#13. Only one person can stop me or keep me going; I myself.
Vikrmn
#14. Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport ... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
Frank Crowninshield
#15. The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse - Cameron Crowe quoted
Gary Calamar
#16. Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.
Frank Crowninshield
#17. That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#19. Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.
Margot Robbie
#20. Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty
Arthur W. Pink
#21. To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect.
Iris Johansen
#23. For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit ... We mean to appeal to their intellects ... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.
Frank Crowninshield
#24. What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
Frank Crowninshield
#25. If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
Naveen Jain
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