Schrager Quotes

#1. I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

Melissa McCarthy

#2. The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed.

Germaine Greer

#3. It's part of my life to feel like a criminal, to have eyes in my back and see if I'm being followed. It's a feeling that comes from street juggling because I have been arrested so many times.

Philippe Petit

#4. People who are successful simply want it more than people who are not.

Ian Schrager

#5. In the end, love is growing up. We feel so much stronger since we are together in this life, than when we were before trying to figure it out alone. Love is all!

Gilles Marini

#6. The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

Ian Schrager

#7. I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

Ian Schrager

#8. Misgovernment ... will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.

Margaret Thatcher

#9. I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

Ian Schrager

#10. When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.

Ian Schrager

#11. It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Good design is good business.

Ian Schrager

#13. The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Ian Schrager

#14. My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I've also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

Ian Schrager

#15. But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Ezra Pound

#16. I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away.

Natasha Richardson

#17. Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually.

Ian Schrager

#18. I don't really collect anything.I mean, if I see a piece of Moxie soda memorabilia, I'll probably buy it. I'm a sucker for regional soda brands and forgotten histories and that sort of thing.

John Hodgman

#19. Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.

Ian Schrager

#20. I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

Ian Schrager

#21. Do anything that you want to do other than what you are required to do ... success will surely go to others.

Amit Abraham