Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Authors:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the authors)
(Click a letter to view the authors)
Letter "C" » Cecil Beaton Quotes
«Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
against, assert, asserted, asserts, commonplace, commonplaces, creatures, Dare to Be Different, daring, different, imaginative, impractical, integrity, in ordinary, ordinary, play, purpose, slaves, slaving, The Creatures, the play, vision
«All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left»
«More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
Against A, apricot, azure, Gold and Silver, islands, shades, The Peninsula, turquoise, varied
«San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
All American, cities, European, Francisco, San, San Francisco
«What is elegance? Soap and water!»
«Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.»
«Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
abiding, airline, airlines, comforting, purely, replaces
«I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.»
Author: Cecil Beaton
(Fashion designer, Photographer)
| Keywords:
dress circle, evening dress, stage set
«Oh, well, he couldn't do everything, could he?»
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
