Top 23 Hussein Chalayan Quotes
#1. Life's supposed to be about making the path a little gentler for those traveling behind you.
Reba McEntire
#2. Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
Swami Vivekananda
#3. When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.
Ella Fitzgerald
#4. In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and recognise them as Hungarian, but very few of us speak Hungarian, but the music itself speaks to more people.
Leonard Slatkin
#5. The sky was a high, pale blue, like faded linen hung in the sun ... Under the alders were bluebells, dark blue, blue flowers hanging their little heads from the beauty of their blossoms.
Eloisa James
#6. I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that I wasn't taught about the connections between all these things. I think that would have given life a lot more meaning and it would be a lot more enjoyable.
Hussein Chalayan
#7. I wanted to say, Who am I to do this, a woman? But that voice was not mine. It was Father's voice. It was Thomas'. It belonged to Israel, to Catherine, and to Mother. It belonged to the church in Charleston and the Quakers in Philadelphia. It would not, if I could help it, belong to me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#8. I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'
Kierston Wareing
#9. Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, look at me move.
Fernando Pessoa
#10. If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.
Azzedine Alaia
#11. If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.
Hussein Chalayan
#12. Yes, it's important to inspire the next generation but let's not forget to inspire the now generation too.
Onyi Anyado
#13. The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.
Barbara Walters
#14. The last thing I wanted was to be another star player in their nightmare.
Adele Levine
#15. I think of fashion as an art form as well as an industrial product - and something that has to be sold well and has to be of high quality.
Hussein Chalayan
#16. Being a part of exhibitions is not a burden; it's another way for an independent label such as mine to reach a larger audience by exposing them to my whole body of work.
Hussein Chalayan
#17. I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.
Hussein Chalayan
#18. London gives birth to amazing talent but is rubbish at helping maintain it.
Hussein Chalayan
#19. You need to look like a lady at the Oscars. Otherwise, Joan Rivers will tear you apart. Then again, you aren't really anyone till Joan Rivers tears you apart.
Paris Hilton
#20. Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity
Napoleon Hill
#21. I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation.
Hussein Chalayan
#23. I'm sorry, Cannan, but your niece is intolerable."
"As are you.
Cayla Kluver
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