I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Design is an unknown.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it.

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I would never say no to comedy.

Funerals arent for the dead. Theyre for the living.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is inneed of help.

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.

Stars arrive on their own timetable.

I love to go to Acapulco with my family.

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

My toes are a total wreck my fingernails worse and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse.

Without Ace of Base, I kind of feel Backstreet Boys would have never found their sound.

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasnt crying last night.

I am not an atheist; I believe in God. But my religion ends there. I have my own personal belief system that is so strong it allows me to do what I do. I don't have to worry about going to Hell because of Slayer, you know? Everyone has a personal belief system and believes in life somehow.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

My mom has a very high-pitched voice, and there are some similarities between her and the voice I use on 'Big Bang,' although my mom has the Jersey accent, so I took that out. But the tone of the voice is very similar to my mother's.