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DIANA FARRELL Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.
VINEET RAJ KAPOOR The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES We have a patent system that is out of balance and in some respects is impeding innovation and econo...
CARL SHAPIRO Patents are a constitutionally protected right and they have been an engine of innovation and econom...
JAMES MALACKOWSKI I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out...
JEFF BEZOS The innovation scoreboard clearly shows that we have to do more for innovation. Boosting innovation ...
GUNTER VERHEUGEN Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
MICHAEL PORTER Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity
MICHAEL PORTER There is a great trade-off that exists between growth and equality. If economic growth is desired, i...
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TIM BISHOP If the innovation process goes offshore, America will lose much of its capacity to generate wealth, ...
JOEL POPKIN Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, n...
WILLIAM E. SIMON Motivation is the fuel that drives the engine towards the destination of salvation and stagnation is...
NICHOLAS CHARLES RHODES We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs f...
RICK LARSEN For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so tha...
JOHN ENSIGN The Internet's open, neutral architecture has proven to be an enormous engine for market innovation,...
VINT CERF It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that driv...
JOHANN RUPERT The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... eve...
SUZI QUATRO Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Inves...
MICHAEL RAMIREZ Our goal is to drive growth and innovation in Europe by investing in the three core categories of Ke...
JOE JIMENEZ continued innovation on the Internet and the growth of electronic commerce.
BILL CAMPBELL NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration...
BILL NYE I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next ...
EDMUND PHELPS Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel th...
HARVEY MACKAY The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
PIERO SCARUFFI Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission ...
DAVID HO Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission ...
DAVID HO [On-demand] is the type of disruptive innovation that has re-energized the single-digit growth softw...
ERIN TRAUDT The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about pr...
GINNI ROMETTY When the devil drives, needs must. (Needs must when the devil
drives.)
JOHN HEYWOOD For new jobs and more employment, we need stronger growth and we can only achieve that via innovatio...
HEINRICH VON PIERER AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives sign...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the b...
BILL GATES Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and wil...
VIVEK WADHWA I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many...
INDRA NOOYI This is nasty, as this is done on all mounted drives, ie. any drive that has a drive letter. So it m...
MIKKO HYPPONEN I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship... sex that drives me crazy and conversation that d...
STEVE MARABOLI Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.
LI KEQIANG Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like b...
BEN HOROWITZ In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic ...
TOM VILSACK There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but t...
NAVAL RAVIKANT Our strategic realignment towards innovation and growth has brought a sustained improvement in the B...
WERNER WENNING We are honored to be recognized for our growth and innovation as a member of this dynamic business c...
ANDY MULLINS Innovation is my drug!!!
OSMAN AHSAN SHEIKH Questioning is important for breakthrough innovation that in future companies will have a CXO level ...
SAURABH GUPTA EARTH5R The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a searc...
SERGEY BRIN The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global e...
REBECCA MACKINNON Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has...
CRAIG MUNDIE Drink often drives a man to misfortune and misfortune often drives a man to drink.
VIKRANT PARSAI What drives me is winning championships.
TONY PARKER The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on c...
DENISE MORRISON Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators ...
NICK HANAUER the hate you gave me brought about the pain that drives me to lead the life that brings growth form ...
SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND It is my intense fear of mediocrity that drives me.
ROMAINE BRUNEY Existing, period – that is what drives men to irrational acts.
DAVE EGGERS He must needs go that the devil drives.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They are the [biggest] thing that stops drives,
LEON JACKSON Profit is the universal trigger of innovation.
MARK BOWDEN Creativity is the backbone of every innovation
PRAVEEN GOYAL That drives me nuts when they do that,
PATRICIA HEATON The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of oth...
SIMON KUZNETS DNS is kind of the hamster under the hood that drives the Internet.
DAVID ULEVITCH Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smar...
STEVE BLANK More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of n...
MARK POCAN True innovation is written in pencil
KIMBERLY ROBERTS Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicula...
PETER DIAMANDIS Innovation is the calling card of the future.
ANNA ESHOO Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's...
REINCE PRIEBUS He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN And that drives Coach crazy. It's nowhere close to what the wishbone is.
SCOTT STRASEMEIER Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.
BILL MARIS The President has laid out a clear path for a comprehensive innovation agenda that prioritizes criti...
LEZLEE WESTINE We are constantly evolving as we are interacting with the world. Mindfulness and growth mindset driv...
AMIT RAY One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails an...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laughter drives shouting away.
INDRA DEVI Culture drives great results.
JACK WELCH Fuel what DRIVES you!
MARJORIE CANALES Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...
JULIA GILLARD Fear is what drives me to your demise.
DONALD C HALL What started this and drives this is bigotry.
JAMES ZOGBY Innovation is the future of Gannett, and Roger has proven his ability to encourage new ideas and mak...
CRAIG DUBOW Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
FERRAN ADRIA Pure innovation is more gross than error.
GEORGE CHAPMAN Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
BILL GATES What drives this business now is pricing its products correctly and making the right assumptions on ...
DAVID HEUPEL We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innov...
GARY HAMEL Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the...
TED LEVITT We did some things well offensively against the Bengals, but the problem is that we didn't finish dr...
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EDITH WIDDER I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we&...
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EDITH WIDDER I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biolog...
EDITH WIDDER In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluoresce...
EDITH WIDDER I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think migh...
EDITH WIDDER Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator t...
EDITH WIDDER I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a met...
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EDITH WIDDER If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,...
EDITH WIDDER The time of declining working hours in the public sector in Germany is over. The train is going in t...
GERHARD WIDDER The result is that the people in our cities will have to continue to endure the strike.
GERHARD WIDDER True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
EDITH WHARTON As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the fac...
EDITH PIAF What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
EDITH WHARTON I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time...
EDITH WHARTON He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
EDITH WHARTON The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
EDITH WHARTON In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
EDITH WHARTON To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it ...
EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it in...
EDITH WHARTON There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rise...
EDITH WHARTON Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to br...
EDITH WHARTON Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
EDITH WHARTON The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
EDITH WHARTON If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
EDITH WHARTON The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it th...
EDITH STEIN All our own present experiences are primordial. What could be more primordial than experience itself...
EDITH STEIN A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community un...
EDITH STEIN During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impert...
EDITH STEIN The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so ex...
EDITH STEIN Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mot...
EDITH STEIN Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into...
EDITH STEIN As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people...
EDITH STEIN Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past s...
EDITH STEIN The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation ...
EDITH STEIN One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And t...
EDITH STEIN Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology...
EDITH STEIN Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for t...
EDITH STEIN On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every co...
EDITH STEIN Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' ...
EDITH STEIN Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every discipli...
EDITH STEIN The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
EDITH STEIN In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it ...
EDITH STEIN The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...
EDITH STEIN If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
EDITH STEIN My longing for truth was a single prayer.
EDITH STEIN This is a serious warning cry: Surrender without reservation to the Lord who has called us. This is ...
EDITH STEIN Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever...
EDITH SITWELL The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous...
EDITH SITWELL The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
EDITH SITWELL I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am...
EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
EDITH SITWELL Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred a...
EDITH SITWELL A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
EDITH SITWELL People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looki...
EDITH SCHAEFFER The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from.
EDITH ROGERS I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinki...
EDITH ROGERS But do not understand me as saying, or for one moment suggesting, that women legislators should conf...
EDITH ROGERS The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its min...
EDITH PEARLMAN I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be...
EDITH PEARLMAN I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity ...
EDITH PEARLMAN There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifyin...
EDITH PEARLMAN I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
EDITH PEARLMAN Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobilit...
EDITH PEARLMAN In the late 1950s, self-esteem hadn't yet been invented. High schools saw their sole mission as ...
EDITH PEARLMAN The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and pr...
EDITH PEARLMAN I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devo...
EDITH PEARLMAN I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you'...
EDITH PEARLMAN I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, m...
EDITH PEARLMAN The ordinary experiences of aging alter and clarify your view of past, present, and future.
EDITH PEARLMAN I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it w...
EDITH PEARLMAN I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
EDITH HEAD I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm be...
EDITH HEAD I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
EDITH HEAD With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women star...
EDITH HEAD Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright col...
EDITH HEAD Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap i...
EDITH HEAD As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothi...
EDITH HEAD We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressin...
EDITH HEAD If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. J...
EDITH HEAD You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear ...
EDITH HEAD A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your ...
EDITH HEAD There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
EDITH HEAD Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
EDITH HEAD Some people need sequins, others don't.
EDITH HEAD I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is m...
EDITH HEAD My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca...
EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan...
EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he...
EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel ...
EDITH SITWELL Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a...
EDITH SITWELL The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
EDITH SCHAEFFER A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
EDITH WHARTON When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it does...
EDITH WHARTON Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet...
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been k...
EDITH CAVELL I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ...
EDITH ARMSTRONG There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who refle...
EDITH WHARTON My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a...
EDITH WHARTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
EDITH NESBIT Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
EDITH WHARTON I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and c...
EDITH WHARTON After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics ove...
EDITH WHARTON My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
EDITH SITWELL Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heret...
EDITH WHARTON Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing wh...
EDITH WHARTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinctio...
EDITH WHARTON Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
EDITH WHARTON In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
EDITH SITWELL I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
EDITH SITWELL My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
EDITH SITWELL Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming t...
EDITH HEAD Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analo...
EDITH STEIN Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a...
EDITH HEAD I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the auth...
EDITH WHARTON I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
EDITH PIAF My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
EDITH WHARTON The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
EDITH WHARTON Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
EDITH HEAD Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young grateful...
EDITH HEAD There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
EDITH PIAF ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...
EDITH WHARTON Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only cli...
EDITH WHARTON When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
EDITH EVANS The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have ...
EDITH SITWELL Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'M...
EDITH HEAD Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,'...
EDITH PEARLMAN After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the cri...
EDITH WHARTON Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
EDITH WHARTON When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility,
then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
EDITH WHARTON As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must ...
EDITH STEIN All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
EDITH PEARLMAN An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON All I've done all my life is disobey.
EDITH PIAF There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
EDITH HEAD