Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About de

Alakija dey find money. Dangote dey find money. Otedola dey find money. Why me no go find money.

Money Alakija Dangote Otedola
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.
Beauty Being Comfortable Confident
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Alive Altogether Argue Certain
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

About Certainly Close Creativity
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.

Around Convention Defy Gravitate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

Decided Early Editors Everybody
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Book Company Counselors Garden
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

Am Far Grounded I Am
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

Cousin Date Father Girl
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.

About Adoption Began Birth
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

Consider Muslim Myself Never
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.

Before Buy Came Cosmetics
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

Allowed Anywhere Arabia Because
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

Been Being Cultures Designers
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do.

Able Absolutely Been Doctors
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.

Campaign Counting Diverse Entire
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Vanity destroys your work. That's the one thing you have to let go of as an actor. I don't care how sexy or beautiful any woman is. At the end of the day, she has to take her makeup off. At the end of the day, she's more than just pretty.

Actor Any Beautiful Care
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Deathbed Defines Go Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Anguish Beauty Cutting Edges
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Aware Bored Happiness He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Action Either Itself Must
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

About Detest Except Make
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

Life Hardest Stay Gate
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Grows Likes More Older
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I thought at 46 years old, I've been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn't possibly write a model's book. That's for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

Been Book Could Fashion
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Beyond Literature Men Minded
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Attached Attachment Corners Ever
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Apparent Being Down Ever
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Closing Dropped End Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

Want Suddenly Disallowed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.

Life Career Point Role
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

Wish People Young Respect
  Favorite Make wallpaper
People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.
Beach Birds Like Me
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
Bad Calls Depression Judgment
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.
Painting Mean Describing State
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Debt Does Imagination Know
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

About Artist Beyond Excess
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Love Men Science Seed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

You Pretending Like Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

Am Definitely Designed Dreaming
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Nonsense Makes Heart Grow
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Actions lie louder than words.

Actions Lie Louder Words
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Capital English English Language Language
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.

Fond Achieving Striving Theories
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Right Moment Better Cleverness
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.

Cookie Did Even Existed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Depend Father Form Less
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Patriotism Multitude Sins
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Enjoy Fun Idea Jobs
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Age Deaths Diseases Laugh
  Favorite Make wallpaper