Karen Karbo Quotes

#1. Silence is so accurate.

Mark Rothko

#2. All of them thought Georgia was weird. Then and now, it takes nerve to be weird - and I mean genuinely out of step with everyone else, not hipster-weird, where you affect the weirdness embraced by everyone else at the coffee shop.

Karen Karbo

#3. ...Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories.

Karen Karbo

#4. Curses happen to even the most seasoned of princesses from time to time - " "But

M.A. Larson

#5. Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

Karen Karbo

#6. O'Keefe is the poster child for doing exactly what you want, in the service of an abiding passion.

Karen Karbo

#7. It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity

Annette J. Dunlea

#8. Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

Karen Karbo

#9. Chanel and Boy "Arthur" Capel met sometime around 1905.

Karen Karbo

#10. Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.

Karen Karbo

#11. The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once - figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read - is the cause of writer's block.

Karen Karbo

#12. Her secret? Loving her own life. Finding the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.

Karen Karbo

#13. Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

Karen Karbo

#14. If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

Simon Armitage

#15. There are few things less stylish than a boring, self absorbed twit ...

Karen Karbo

#16. ...behind every Guide Michelin chef there was a woman, usually a four foot cataract-ridden old granny from whom he'd filched his best recipes.

Karen Karbo

#17. The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever.

Karen Karbo

#18. Be steady. Make ready. Keep your eyes, and ears, and tongues on fast so that your hearts may know that holy hunger which, once appeased, leaves you forever full. You

Mikhail Naimy

#19. Life is too short to be anything but happy.

Abhysheq Shukla

#20. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Karen Karbo

#21. The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.

Karen Karbo