Simon Doonan Quotes

#1. This history must sometimes see with Little Dorrit's eyes, and shall begin that course by seeing him.

Charles Dickens

#2. Through his suffering, he peers into the core of things and sees that the judgment of man is thistle-down in the wind.

Stephen Crane

#3. Why the hell wouldn't you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, who look interesting and smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors?

Simon Doonan

#4. Knowing who you really are and dressing the part
with an air of amused recklessness
is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

Simon Doonan

#5. My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

Gabby Douglas

#6. She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

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#7. Why be formal when you can be fabulously feral? Why be conventional when you can be happy?

Simon Doonan

#8. Red is wild. She is unsettling. She intrigues. Wear red and other women will assume that you are a predatory vixen who is out to steal their husbands and suck the blood of their children.

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#9. All time is now.

Caitlin Lynagh

#10. The charming shall inherit the Earth.

Simon Doonan

#11. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

Aleister Crowley

#12. If there is such a person on the planet, then he or she-this self-appointed arbiter of "appropriateness"-deserves to be confronted with as many "inappropriate" transgressions as possible.

Simon Doonan

#13. For me, it is very important to believe in the kind of movies I do. 'Rang De Basanti' made me feel good about Indian cinema. The movie instilled in me a confidence so strong, that I wanted to be a part of the revolution in Bollywood.

Vir Das

#14. 'Cemetery Lake' was an interesting book to write.

Paul Cleave

#15. The great thing about being considered insane is that you've got an excuse to do anything you want

Karen Francisco

#16. They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

Jack London

#17. Conformity is the only real fashion crime

Simon Doonan

#18. The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.

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#19. Maybe it isn't the room that's different. Maybe it's me.

Jennifer Niven

#20. Dressing down is a crime against humanity.

Simon Doonan

#21. Architects are the new comedians.

Simon Doonan

#22. I don't want a politician who's thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garcons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy.

Simon Doonan

#23. Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you've just murdered someone in them.

Simon Doonan

#24. Gay men are French women...with penises.

Simon Doonan

#25. The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'

Simon Doonan

#26. All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

Simon Doonan