Judith Leiber Quotes

#1. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

Franz Werfel

#2. I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

Brad Gilbert

#3. Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.

Matthew Stewart

#4. If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Saint Augustine

#5. I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

Judith Leiber

#6. I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

Judith Leiber

#7. If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

Judith Leiber

#8. I have a few customers who have two or three hundred bags. When you see a lady carrying a little dog bag or a little cat bag or an egg, it makes you happy.

Judith Leiber

#9. I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

Judith Leiber

#10. I want them to bite into a cookie, and think of me, and smile. Food is love. Food has a power. I knew it in my mind, but now I know it in my heart.

Jael McHenry

#11. Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Billy Rose