FastSaying

I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.


Raf Simons

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, wh...
GEORGE CLOONEY I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which ...
GEORGE CLOONEY It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA

More Raf Simons

The Chanel woman? I don't even need to see; I smell her from round the corner.
RAF SIMONS One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from ...
RAF SIMONS If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn'...
RAF SIMONS I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of p...
RAF SIMONS My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in ...
RAF SIMONS For me, Warhol made so much sense.
RAF SIMONS In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil...
RAF SIMONS Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass thro...
RAF SIMONS Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everythi...
RAF SIMONS I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most d...
RAF SIMONS You can instantly spot a Chanel woman, so I want to develop the Dior woman.
RAF SIMONS Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a w...
RAF SIMONS Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a websit...
RAF SIMONS I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.
RAF SIMONS I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - t...
RAF SIMONS My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear ...
RAF SIMONS I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it&#...
RAF SIMONS Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, alt...
RAF SIMONS I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
RAF SIMONS My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
RAF SIMONS The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are subli...
RAF SIMONS My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I...
RAF SIMONS Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, produ...
RAF SIMONS You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
RAF SIMONS I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carp...
RAF SIMONS My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't...
RAF SIMONS I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then...
RAF SIMONS I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I a...
RAF SIMONS I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about al...
RAF SIMONS L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to ...
RAF SIMONS My dad's a photographer, and my sister is a writer and a poet. My little brother is a mandolin p...
TIMOTHY SIMONS David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and...
TIMOTHY SIMONS There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live ...
PAULLINA SIMONS There is that great thing of D.C. being Hollywood for ugly people. There's very distinct crossov...
TIMOTHY SIMONS ....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I...
PAULLINA SIMONS I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid....
TIMOTHY SIMONS I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's...
TIMOTHY SIMONS Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"
Alexander: "T...
PAULLINA SIMONS I got into a conversation with EMI, and they said they were very interested in releasing the song be...
EVA SIMONS Fishers of fish and fishers of men.
CORY SIMONS He is lying on dirty straw. He has been beaten so many times, his body is one bloodied bruise; he is...
PAULLINA SIMONS Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life
PAULLINA SIMONS You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said ...
PAULLINA SIMONS Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.
PAULLINA SIMONS Good-bye, my moonsong and my breath, my white nights and golden days, my fresh water and my fire. Go...
PAULLINA SIMONS Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do be...
PAULLINA SIMONS We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to...
PAULLINA SIMONS It's sad when they advertise a detective slot for $9.50 an hour. I pay my babysitter more.
DAVID SIMONS It was a simple move so customers can see the produce being made and see how fresh our ingredients a...
SCOTT SIMONS People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just...
HOWARD SIMONS This has given us a venue to talk about Community of Courage.
CAROLE SIMONS This is a really weird role for me.
CAROLE SIMONS I thought they were just going to use my head.
CAROLE SIMONS It is a dangerous world -- things that happen far away hit our doorstep, and affect our lives . And ...
WILL SIMONS I've lived with myself for a very long time, so I'm aware of what I look like. I'm under...
TIMOTHY SIMONS We've already talked about next year and how much we want to come back here. We lose a lot and we wi...
CALEB SIMONS I want to get back here again real bad. I worked so hard this year to get here, but I will work even...
CALEB SIMONS I think we will be able to handle the feeling of playing at the Breslin because we played at the Pal...
CALEB SIMONS It's an underdog story about college sports. Rudy has always wanted to play for Notre Dame, and he a...
BRIAN SIMONS It's about how he introduces music in general to the kids at school.
BRIAN SIMONS He breaks a lot of rules to teach them about poetry.
BRIAN SIMONS Though outwardly Kristina maintained that a clean room was a symptom of a diseased mind (for how cou...
PAULLINA SIMONS We always write home to let our family and friends know what we're doing.
CORY SIMONS We have a good relationship with people of other faiths ... they're very nice to us.
CORY SIMONS It's easy to get along - we're both here for the same reason.
CORY SIMONS If it happens to someone you love, it makes you that much more motivated to make a change.
DAVE SIMONS Ask yourself three questions [...] and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What ...
PAULLINA SIMONS I think the absolute worst job I ever had - not because it was a terrible job, just because I was ju...
TIMOTHY SIMONS I saved you for me.
PAULLINA SIMONS There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to fi...
PAULLINA SIMONS Please don't die," she whispered. "I don't think I can bury
you. I already buried everyone els...
PAULLINA SIMONS One of the remarkable things about transports over the last couple of years is how much they ignored...
HOWARD SIMONS I'm just a girl from Amsterdam. It's a small city. Everybody knows Amsterdam, but it's s...
EVA SIMONS Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... wh...
EVA SIMONS Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into thei...
EVA SIMONS It's a comedy. A great one.
KATIE SIMONS If they're this crazy now. Imagine how they'll be on stage.
KATIE SIMONS It's a classic story that teaches kids about becoming part of a community. Kids have loved this stor...
KATIE SIMONS It's no coincidence that Brick drinks Echo Springs bourbon. All the metaphors point to these broken ...
KATIE SIMONS You really get to know these people. It almost becomes a detective story. Why is Brick like this?
KATIE SIMONS What has kept it current all these years is that it's so true to family relationships and the way we...
KATIE SIMONS This will be an exciting addition to Santa Clarita. It's very refreshing to add a brand new hotel wi...
JEFF SIMONS I think the state education department is focused in the right areas. And one of those areas continu...
JEFF SIMONS The data that we're getting back on the terms of how well our students are doing is remarkable. We s...
JEFF SIMONS We were committed to using the new technology to bring better service to our customers.
ROBERT SIMONS Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what ...
PAULLINA SIMONS Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June throug...
PAULLINA SIMONS A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his wal...
PAULLINA SIMONS The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else...
JAMES HARRIS SIMONS