Hamnett Quotes

#1. I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.

Katharine Hamnett

#2. Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don't have it.

Andy Warhol

#3. On February the fourteenth, 1890, I was born. Everybody was furious, especially my Father, who still is. As soon as I became conscious of anything I was furious too...

Nina Hamnett

#4. Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

#5. What if winning the gold medal at the Olympics wasn't the end?
What if ... it was only the beginning?

Amanda Dubin

#6. The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?

Katharine Hamnett

#7. No one can tell you what to do with your own art unless you let them.

Matthew Quick

#8. What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was.

Mila Kunis

#9. All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

Michael Jordan

#10. One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

Robert Bresson

#11. The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives,

Katharine Hamnett

#12. The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

Katharine Hamnett

#13. But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

Henry Van Dyke

#14. if it meant the difference between getting evicted and living in her gas-less car, or asking a state agency for help, she was glad she'd asked for help.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#15. Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

Katharine Hamnett

#16. Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

Katharine Hamnett

#17. Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Lauren Bacall

#18. Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

Jeff Buckley

#19. You might think people would buy clothes out of pity,
but they won't. People buy clothes because
they want to be excited about themselves.
... it has to be great clothing
that just happens to be goody-goody, too.

Katharine Hamnett

#20. Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

Aditi Shankardass