Emma > Emma's Quotes

“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“For me, a woman who is absorbed in her work, who does not care about gaining one’s favour, strong yet subtle at the same time, is essentially more seductive. The more she hides and abandons her femininity, the more it emerges from the very heart of her existence.”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing”
― Yohji Yamamoto, My Dear Bomb

“I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.”
― Yohji Yamamoto, My Dear Bomb

“My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance.

Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you?

Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next?

It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence.”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.”
― yohji yamamoto

“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.”
― Tupac Shakur, Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996

“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
― Kanye West

“Everything I'm not makes me everything I am”
― Kanye West

“For me giving up is way harder than trying.”
― Kanye West

“..my music isn't just music- its medicine.”
― Kanye West

“I HEARD YOU LIKE TO DO IT WITH THE LIGHTS ON. BUT I REALLY MAKE BABIES WHEN THE MIC'S ON. ”
― KANYE WEST

“They say ya additude determines ya laditude...”
― Kanye West, Thank You and You're Welcome

“I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.”
― Kanye West

“To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians.
Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book”
― William Saroyan, Places Where I've Done Time

“It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”
― William Saroyan

“Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.”
― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.
Rose of Life”
― Sonia Rumzi

“People are people. Don't be afraid of them.”
― William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

“Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.”
― William Saroyan

“It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.”
― William Saroyan

“I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant”
― William Saroyan, My Heart's in the Highlands

“I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.”
― William Saroyan

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
― William Saroyan

“What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?”
― William Saroyan, Madness in the Family: Stories

“The order I found was the order of disorder”
― William Saroyan

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”
― John Ruskin

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon