Oscar de la Renta Quote

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.

Coco Chanel

• Woman

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Bruce Lee

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Marcel Proust

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.

Isabelle Huppert

• Desire

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

Vivienne Westwood

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Angelina Jolie

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

• Effort

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

Paulo Coelho

• Life

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

• Self-discovery

I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

John Galliano

• Woman

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

Coco Chanel

• Woman
• Future

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Federico Fellini

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Tennessee Williams

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

George Gershwin

• Woman

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.

Billie Jean King

I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness.

Demi Moore

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

Colin Firth