Grace Coddington Quotes

#1. I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#2. I grew up with Grace Coddington coming over to our house, like, all the time, but, like, she was just, like, the woman with the red hair.

Ansel Elgort

#3. Do I dream very much? Do I dream predominantly about fashion? No. I dream much more about cats.

Grace Coddington

#4. I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

Paul Auster

#5. You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid

Grace Coddington

#6. Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.

Grace Coddington

#7. I loved all the boys with soft sad eyes, and lost souls.

Grace Coddington

#8. You have to be tougher. You have to learn the way to beat your path through, to make yourself felt, and make yourself necessary.

Grace Coddington

#9. You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind.

Grace Coddington

#10. I can, too, be a bitch sometimes

Grace Coddington

#11. Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.

Grace Coddington

#12. I think I got left behind somewhere, because, you know, I'm still a romantic

Grace Coddington

#13. Sometimes I think I'm the last remaining person who goes to the shows for the pleasure of seeing the clothes, rather than desperately wanting to be there for the social side

Grace Coddington

#14. This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

David Axelrod

#15. Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

Grace Coddington

#16. Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

Rachel Sklar

#17. To deal with someone from other infinites is problematic at times, to deal with a true master of all the realms of the yogas. We call them someone with the seven seals of enlightenment, meaning that their gradated perception has past through all the realms.

Frederick Lenz

#18. If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

Arlen Specter

#19. Sometimes I remind myself of all the things that make me feel so blessed. And then I remind myself to remind myself more often.

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