Olivia Goldsmith Quotes

#1. There's not a woman in the world who won't buy a Lie she wants to Believe

Olivia Goldsmith

#2. I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#3. Horses are a symbol of America and can be marketed that way overseas.

Bo Derek

#4. The Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

Alvar Aalto

#6. I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.

Tom Ford

#7. My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?

Drumma Boy

#8. I've noticed that men get unhappy about women talking about something other than men, or love, or babies.

Margarethe Von Trotta

#9. It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.

Olivia Goldsmith

#10. As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Olivia Goldsmith

#11. The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

Olivia Goldsmith

#12. Just like a spider with a line of silk! Did you ever see them throw themselves out into space to weave? They're taking a chance, every single time. They got to do it or else they'd never create anything. But I bet it don't feel good, even to a spider.

Olivia Goldsmith

#13. Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

John Schlesinger

#14. My only regret is that I don't have more to regret.

Robert Bruce Cormack

#15. I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.

Jonathan Meades

#16. As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.

Olivia Goldsmith

#17. I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.

Koushun Takami

#18. Everyone has different problems, but everyone has some kind of problem.

Olivia Goldsmith