Top 23 Ian Schrager Quotes
#1. I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.
John McCain
#3. In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.
Sarah Dessen
#4. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
Ian Schrager
#5. I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.
Howard Shore
#6. Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
Ian Schrager
#8. I think we respond well when we do something well.
Katey Sagal
#9. I'm so sorry because it's still not easy. You have a long, hard, terrible road ahead. There are lots of ways to travel it, but they all suck and they all involve letting go.
Laurie Frankel
#10. Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.
Ian Schrager
#11. My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.
Ian Schrager
#12. And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking
and these are the sum of all wisdom ... Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
Ian Schrager
#14. I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.
Giorgio De Chirico
#15. Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter, and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.
Charles Dickens
#16. When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
Ian Schrager
#17. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.
Aleister Crowley
#18. I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
Ian Schrager
#19. I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
Ian Schrager
#20. The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
Ian Schrager
#21. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid and restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer
Charlotte Bronte
#22. People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.
Ian Schrager
#23. All entities move and nothing remains still
Heraclitus
