Nan 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. Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.

Nan Kempner

#5. And so they huddled together, waiting, hoping for a savior that would never come.
-Tides of a Midwinter War, by Constanze De Witte

Marie Lu

#6. 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

#7. The best part of a party is getting dressed to go.

Nan Kempner

#8. But we acted pre-emptively in Kosovo in 1999 to stop Milosevic from doing what he was doing and increasingly doing the ethnic cleansing in a systematic way.

Lord Robertson

#9. You keep squintin' in Savage's dark corners, you gonna wish yourself blind.

Alexandra Sirowy

#10. I'm drunk when it comes to clothes.

Nan Kempner

#11. There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements ... where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.

Yann Martel

#12. I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.

Nan Kempner

#13. I spend way more than I should ... and way less than I want.

Nan Kempner

#14. But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.

Terry Pratchett

#15. I consider myself an American, not an Asian, not even an Asian-American although people can't get away from the freaking labels that society needs to pigeonhole us." There

Toni Anderson

#16. I prefer doing things rather than sitting around talking about doing things.

George Kaiser

#17. You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

Nan Kempner

#18. I can't make people fall in love with Jesus, but I can arrange dates.

Andy Stanley

#19. Inspire others to make Youtube videos

Brian Hollins