
Top 23 Kempner Quotes
#1. I think the golden age of couture had some of the most incredible customers: women like Nan Kempner and all the icons.
Nicolas Ghesquiere
#2. The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.
Kate Reardon
#3. Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.
Suzy Menkes
#4. Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone.
Nia Long
#5. Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
Christopher Moore
#6. Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.
Nan Kempner
#7. We must forget the past because in Jesus Christ, all things have become new
Sunday Adelaja
#8. I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.
Nan Kempner
#9. The best part of a party is getting dressed to go.
Nan Kempner
#10. We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.
Don Meyer
#11. People brush past us on the street in endless waves, leaving somewhere, headed somewhere else, laughing, smoking, speaking into cell phones, completely oblivious to the holocaust of an entire world casually imploding in their midst.
Jonathan Tropper
#13. The concept of a supermind running the universe objectively, without compassion, is not new. Several religions are built around it. Thinking of God in these terms is not heresy but is advanced theology. The old-time God - the big bearded man sitting on a throne in the sky - is dead.
John A. Keel
#14. High school sweetheart is such an
innocuous-sounding term for something that can tear out your guts.
Daria Snadowsky
#15. Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
#17. The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.
Beth Orton
#18. If that doesn't seem dominant enough, consider the fact that the word "google" is now an official entry in the Oxford English Dictionary - as a verb.
Peter Thiel
#19. I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
Nan Kempner
#20. I spend way more than I should ... and way less than I want.
Nan Kempner
#21. Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.
Soumya V.
#22. The trouble with us
daydreamers is,
we tend to watch
the world through
a coloured lens.
Then one day
we fall
and the lens cracks.
The Dreamer
#23. You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.
Nan Kempner
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