Katharine Hamnett Quotes

#1. Fame is a curse ... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

Sinead O'Connor

#2. If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

Marilyn Manson

#3. A house doesn't make a home. When the place has got history, family, emotions, worries, joys worked into the wood, that's when it gets a solid threshold.

Jim Butcher

#4. You might think people would buy clothes out of pity,
but they won't. People buy clothes because
they want to be excited about themselves.
... it has to be great clothing
that just happens to be goody-goody, too.

Katharine Hamnett

#5. I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

Susan Ford

#6. God gives a new grace for every new quest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

Katharine Hamnett

#8. Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.

Anne Sullivan Macy

#9. Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

Katharine Hamnett

#10. The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

Katharine Hamnett

#11. The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives,

Katharine Hamnett

#12. I know your lives are busy. I know that you have much to do. But I make you a promise that if you will go to the house of the Lord, you will be blessed; life will be better for you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Debby Ryan

#14. The girl? She was a time bomb.

Ray Bradbury

#15. Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

Norman Vincent Peale

#16. But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well - for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels - I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men -

Homer

#17. I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham

#18. The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?

Katharine Hamnett

#19. The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

Black Elk

#20. I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.

Katharine Hamnett

#21. People are made from the stuff of the universe, and the universe is very dark; so everyone has a bit of that darkness lurking somewhere inside them.

Patrick Zac