The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
DIANA VREELAND Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
DIANA VREELAND The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
DIANA VREELAND I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity
DIANA VREELAND I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
DIANA VREELAND I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India!
DIANA VREELAND Pink is the navy blue of India.
DIANA VREELAND too much good taste can be boring.
DIANA VREELAND Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
DIANA VREELAND What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
DIANA VREELAND The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural world...
DIANA VREELAND In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room-no other woman existed.
DIANA VREELAND The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. Yo...
DIANA VREELAND A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to ma...
DIANA VREELAND Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it ...
DIANA VREELAND [Balenciaga] did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
DIANA VREELAND No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
DIANA VREELAND You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
DIANA VREELAND The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.
DIANA VREELAND Parents, you know, can be terrible.
DIANA VREELAND Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
DIANA VREELAND Exaggeration is my only reality.
DIANA VREELAND A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding foreve...
DIANA VREELAND Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short...
SUSAN VREELAND Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, comm...
SUSAN VREELAND To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that bot...
SUSAN VREELAND Art history looks at art works and the people who have created them.
SUSAN VREELAND When I think how art education is eliminated whenever we get a budget crunch in the schools, I have ...
SUSAN VREELAND I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the...
SUSAN VREELAND Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elev...
SUSAN VREELAND When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the...
SUSAN VREELAND Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid ...
SUSAN VREELAND I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.
SUSAN VREELAND Two of my grandfathers had been artists, lifelong oil painters, so I was exposed to art very young. ...
SUSAN VREELAND I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in th...
SUSAN VREELAND When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong...
SUSAN VREELAND Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The...
SUSAN VREELAND The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of th...
SUSAN VREELAND It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials - I loved her, she m...
SUSAN VREELAND Archival and published history does not always record personal relationships of historical figures, ...
SUSAN VREELAND Writers have to be observant. Every nuance, every inflection in a voice, the quality of air, even - ...
SUSAN VREELAND The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower,...
SUSAN VREELAND 'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has s...
SUSAN VREELAND The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit anoth...
SUSAN VREELAND For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that Am...
SUSAN VREELAND As New York careens toward the modernity of the twentieth century when Gibson girls were transformin...
SUSAN VREELAND Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
HERBERT HAROLD VREELAND Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job
HERBERT HAROLD VREELAND Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to giv...
DIANA GABALDON I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.
DIANA GABALDON I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period...
PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett...
PRINCESS DIANA I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa...
PRINCESS DIANA There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
PRINCESS DIANA I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feel...
PRINCESS DIANA Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves...
PRINCESS DIANA The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
PRINCESS DIANA When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
PRINCESS DIANA I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ...
PRINCESS DIANA If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
PRINCESS DIANA Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
PRINCESS DIANA HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven...
PRINCESS DIANA Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
PRINCESS DIANA I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
PRINCESS DIANA Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.
DIANA GABALDON For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary
DIANA GABALDON You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I&#...
DIANA KRALL 'Game of Thrones' is wonderful. My theory is they employ all these British actors because, o...
DIANA RIGG Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who ...
DIANA NYAD I was very, very young, living in India. I'd been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lo...
DIANA RIGG The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs ...
DIANA NYAD I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings an...
DIANA GALBADON I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings an...
DIANA GABALDON You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.
LADY DIANA I have never seen a script that hasn't gone through at least eight different iterations before t...
DIANA GABALDON Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of ...
DIANA RANKIN Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-le...
DIANA GABALDON Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after...
DIANA GABALDON Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
DIANA GABALDON I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...
DIANA GABALDON Goals are dreams with deadlines.
DIANA SCHARF I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than...
DIANA GABALDON I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as lon...
DIANA NYAD You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out th...
DIANA ROSS Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do...
DIANA ROSS With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things....
DIANA ROSS Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
DIANA BLACK Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of ...
DIANA RANKIN There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing ...
DIANA NYAD You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
PRINCESS DIANA I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
DIANA ROSS Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
PRINCESS DIANA They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like ...
PRINCESS DIANA Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a ...
PRINCESS DIANA I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventur...
DIANA RIGG I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
PRINCESS DIANA The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
PRINCESS DIANA Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me...
DIANA LOPEZ Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have ...
DIANA LOPEZ You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with M...
DIANA LOPEZ I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my bro...
DIANA LOPEZ Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shop...
DIANA LOPEZ When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and f...
DIANA LOPEZ I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve President Obama and the country and proud of the p...
DIANA FARRELL I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this cou...
PRINCESS DIANA There have been setbacks, illnesses and other obstacles, so inevitably I've had disappointments....
DIANA QUICK Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an e...
DIANA GABALDON Only do what your heart tells you.
PRINCESS DIANA You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to ge...
DIANA ROSS Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one da...
PRINCESS DIANA Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Ja...
DIANA GABALDON Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly ho...
DIANA GABALDON Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals,...
DIANA DEGETTE We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /televisio...
DIANA GABALDON Don't be afraid. There's the two of us now.
DIANA GABALDON It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
DIANA ROSS All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what ...
DIANA RIGG It would be nice if they didn't make me get up at 5 A.M. for a 12-hour day. My caravan is never ...
DIANA RIGG Three of the principal cast members of 'Outlander' have come out publically for 'Yes'...
DIANA GABALDON I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacr...
DIANA LOPEZ Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomica...
DIANA GABALDON The highs were high, the awe, I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you, to be in the az...
DIANA NYAD I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
DIANA ROSS I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not lo...
DIANA RIGG From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged...
DIANA GABALDON I'd love to play a femme fatale in a film noir. I'm thinking of one of those roles that Laur...
DIANA QUICK You hand the baton on, and that's why roles like 'Medea' resonate for years and years, a...
DIANA RIGG We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who g...
DIANA RIGG My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best...
DIANA LOPEZ I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because ...
DIANA KRALL Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
DIANA ROBINSON It's worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given t...
DIANA GABALDON It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that ...
DIANA LOPEZ So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how th...
DIANA KRALL Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.
DIANA GABALDON There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, th...
DIANA GABALDON A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an esca...
DIANA GALBADON I hope there's a tinge of disgrace about me. Hopefully, there's one good scandal left in me ...
DIANA RIGG I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to ...
PRINCESS DIANA I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's d...
PRINCESS DIANA It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
DIANA ROSS I don't mind getting old except for the pain. I have two new knees, so going downstairs is not p...
DIANA RIGG I walked across Tuscany from Siena to Rome, which was a lovely way to see the landscape. It was sunn...
DIANA QUICK Sleep is death without the consequence.
DIANA QUINN Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.
DIANA COOPER It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's ha...
DIANA AVIV It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts befo...
DIANA AVIV In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional r...
DIANA AVIV With government funding being cut back, charities are being hard-pressed to turn away money that's l...
DIANA AVIV These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and en...
DIANA AVIV Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating whe...
DIANA AVIV It is a challenge to place a dollar value on the important work volunteers do for millions of charit...
DIANA AVIV With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations d...
DIANA AVIV If we don't knock it back now it's just going to get worse and worse.
DIANA ANDREWS We'll have a short presentation. We just encourage anybody who is interested in the lake to attend.
DIANA ANDREWS A little bit of vegetation is good but too much is not.
DIANA ANDREWS I'm pretty hopeful that the public will be favorable to it this time because we have had some commen...
DIANA ANDREWS They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independen...
DIANA ROSS But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?
DIANA NYAD If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally d...
DIANA GABALDON Well, you know, it's been interesting because an album is just a snapshot of where you are at th...
DIANA KRALL I buy most of my plants from nurseries outside London these days, but there is a man who mysteriousl...
DIANA QUICK Good looks are not something you earn. But as you get older, how you look is a reflection of the lif...
DIANA QUICK Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one da...
DIANA SPENCER The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Hol...
DIANA ROSS It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.
DIANA NYAD If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
PRINCESS DIANA I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. Th...
DIANA ROSS If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
DIANA ROSS Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about m...
DIANA ROSS Hair has always been important.
DIANA ROSS Just because I have my standards, they think I'm a bitch
DIANA ROSS I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looki...
DIANA COOPER Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse.
DIANA COOPER Age wins and one must learn to grow old.
DIANA COOPER I feel in my heart I am supposed to be here right now. We have here an 8-year-old cocker spaniel tha...
DIANA COOPER I feel in my heart I am supposed to be here right now, ... We have here an 8-year-old cocker spaniel...
DIANA COOPER It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertigi...
DIANA COOPER For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's be...
DIANA NYAD If it were said that I didn't fulfil my potential as a mother and wife, I'd be heartbroken. ...
DIANA RIGG What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that ...
DIANA GABALDON I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like ...
DIANA ROSS Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and ...
DIANA RIGG I love 'Mastermind'. It's touching that people spend so much time learning. I do have qu...
DIANA RIGG All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing...
DIANA GABALDON I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda...
DIANA RIGG I was nourished and nurtured at Stratford as a very young actress. They guided me and forgave me!
DIANA RIGG In actual fact, I doubled 'Twelfth Night' and 'The Avengers'. I was going backwards ...
DIANA RIGG People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and f...
DIANA GABALDON I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see thin...
DIANA GALBADON I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there it's a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to a...
DIANA QUICK