Top 32 Harlech Quotes
#1. I think Lucy Ferry, now Birley, is absolutely beautiful. She's a modern girl, but she moves beautifully. Amanda [Harlech] moves beautifully when she's not working. All those English leftover society girls.
Manolo Blahnik
#2. You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.
Amanda Harlech
#3. We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
Amanda Harlech
#6. Cause this place is a home away from home where you can forget about all that painful stuff and just be yourself with the people who, like, truly get - or at least truly want to get - who you are.
Stacy Davidowitz
#7. Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.
Amanda Harlech
#8. I think I am really easygoing. Well ... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.
Amanda Harlech
#9. When the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.
Howard Snell
#10. I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
Amanda Harlech
#11. I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
Amanda Harlech
#12. I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.
Amanda Harlech
#13. I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.
Amanda Harlech
#14. Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.
Amanda Harlech
#15. Singing is my form of expression; it's what I've always done and I hope that in some capacity I'll always have that outlet. In the next few weeks I'm getting together with many varied kinds of songwriters. I'd really like to explore a few things and see what I can come out with.
Wendy Matthews
#16. Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.
Amanda Harlech
#17. I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.
Amanda Harlech
#19. To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt
#20. I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.
Amanda Harlech
#21. People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.
Amanda Harlech
#22. My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.
Amanda Harlech
#23. It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
#25. I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.
Amanda Harlech
#26. What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble.
Al Ries
#27. Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.
Amanda Harlech
#28. In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
#29. At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
Amanda Harlech
#30. It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Anne Bronte
#31. I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible ... I think I am part of that.
Amanda Harlech
#32. Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends,
Amanda Harlech
