"I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962."

-- Hamish Bowles

#Years Quotes #Pieces Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.”
“Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. Iâ€™ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?”
“One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.”
“There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.”
“We donâ€™t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of our intelligence. The Web provides a convenient and compelling supplement to personal memory - but when we start using the Web as a substitute for personal memory, by bypassing the inner processes of consolidation, we risk emptying our minds of their riches.”
“Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”
“That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.”
“Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.”

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